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HOUSE BILL NO. 2269 Offered January 11, 2023 Prefiled January 11, 2023 A BILL to place certain conditions on certain federal pandemic relief funds for public education; emergency. ---------- Patron-- Greenhalgh ---------- Referred to Committee on Education ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Any local school division that, as of March 1, 2023, has available and unspent federal (i) ESSER formula funds exceeding $5,000 or (ii) state set-aside ESSER or GEER funds awarded to the local school division by the Virginia Department of Education (the Department) shall return such funds to the Department no later than March 15, 2023, unless precluded by federal law or regulation. The Department shall subsequently expend any such returned funds for student instruction and remediation.

§ 2. Each local school division shall obtain the approval of the local school board for its federal ESSER III spending plan, shall update such spending plan at least once every six months, and shall publish such spending plan in an accessible format on a publicly available website.

2. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.