To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential school aid appropriation in the 2021-2022 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include real ones.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To revise the detailed conditions and amounts attached to a number of programs and functions the bill would pay for.

To strike a provision that would require district to provide specified amounts on in-person instruction.

To appropriate $15.775 billion for K-12 schools in the 2021-22 fiscal year budget the begins Oct. 1, 2022. Of this, $1.882 billion is federal money.

To send back to the Senate a substitute version of the bill that is "stripped" of all actual appropriations, and instead authorizes just $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.