States' Education Reclamation Act of 2021 This bill abolishes the Department of Education (ED) and repeals any program for which it has administrative responsibility. The Department of the Treasury shall provide grants to states, for FY2021-FY2029, for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education purposes permitted by state law. The level of funding is set at the amount provided to states for federal elementary and secondary education programs and the amount provided for federal postsecondary education programs, respectively, for FY2021, minus the funding provided for education programs that the bill transfers to other federal agencies. States must contract for an annual audit of their expenditures or transfers of grant funds. Program administrative responsibility and delegation of authority are transferred as follows: ED's job training programs to the Department of Labor, each special education grant program under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ED's Indian education programs to the Department of the Interior, each Impact Aid program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to the Department of Defense, the Federal Pell Grant program and each federal student loan program to Treasury, and programs under the jurisdiction of the Institute of Education Sciences or the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program to HHS.
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Education
Accounting and auditingAppropriationsCongressional oversightDepartment of EducationDisability and health-based discriminationEducation programs fundingElementary and secondary educationEmployment and training programsExecutive agency funding and structureGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsHigher educationIntergovernmental relationsRacial and ethnic relationsSex, gender, sexual orientation discriminationSpecial educationState and local financeState and local government operationsTeaching, teachers, curriculaWages and earnings
States’ Education Reclamation Act of 2021
USA117th CongressHR-2106| House
| Updated: 3/19/2021
States' Education Reclamation Act of 2021 This bill abolishes the Department of Education (ED) and repeals any program for which it has administrative responsibility. The Department of the Treasury shall provide grants to states, for FY2021-FY2029, for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education purposes permitted by state law. The level of funding is set at the amount provided to states for federal elementary and secondary education programs and the amount provided for federal postsecondary education programs, respectively, for FY2021, minus the funding provided for education programs that the bill transfers to other federal agencies. States must contract for an annual audit of their expenditures or transfers of grant funds. Program administrative responsibility and delegation of authority are transferred as follows: ED's job training programs to the Department of Labor, each special education grant program under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ED's Indian education programs to the Department of the Interior, each Impact Aid program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to the Department of Defense, the Federal Pell Grant program and each federal student loan program to Treasury, and programs under the jurisdiction of the Institute of Education Sciences or the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program to HHS.
Accounting and auditingAppropriationsCongressional oversightDepartment of EducationDisability and health-based discriminationEducation programs fundingElementary and secondary educationEmployment and training programsExecutive agency funding and structureGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsHigher educationIntergovernmental relationsRacial and ethnic relationsSex, gender, sexual orientation discriminationSpecial educationState and local financeState and local government operationsTeaching, teachers, curriculaWages and earnings