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H.R. 6733: Midwest Schools Disaster Recovery Act

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H.R. 6733: Midwest Schools Disaster Recovery Act

110th Congress · introduced 2008-07-31 · Education · Latest: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1677)

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2008-07-31 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Hare, Phil [D-IL-17] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1677) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Midwest Schools Disaster Recovery Act

Plain summary

Midwest Schools Disaster Recovery Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make payments to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin to enable such states to assist their local educational agencies (LEAs) in recovering from the severe storms and flooding that hit the Midwest during the months of May and June, 2008. Protects such LEAs, that serve major disaster areas due to those storms and floods, from experiencing a FY2009 reduction of school improvement funds under part A of title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Authorizes the Secretary to waive or modify the application of maintenance of effort and cost-sharing conditions on the receipt of educational funding by entities in states affected by such disaster. Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) temporary emergency Impact Aid to states and, through them, to LEAs and Indian schools to enable such LEAs and schools to instruct students displaced by such disaster; and (2) assistance, consistent with the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, to LEAs serving students rendered homeless by such disaster. Terminates this Act's programs on August 1, 2009.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Midwest Schools Disaster Recovery Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Hare, Phil [D-IL-17] · 10 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Bill Foster (D-IL)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong110-hr6733 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong110 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong110