S.Amdt. 131

SA 131. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 5, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2022 through 2030; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST EDUCATION-RELATED COVID-19
FUNDING WITHOUT IN-PERSON INSTRUCTION.

(a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate
to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment,
amendment between the Houses, or conference report that would
allow any COVID-19 Federal funding for elementary or
secondary school education for local educational agencies
that do not offer all students some in-person instruction.
This point of order should not be interpreted to prevent the
reimbursement to the Federal Government of any Federal
educational relief funds appropriated during fiscal year 2020
or 2021 for any local educational agencies that continue to
primarily conduct remote learning in contravention of
guidance from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
(b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or
suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative
vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly
chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of
the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under
subsection (a).
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