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PUBLIC LAW 246-AUG. 8, 1953

[67 S T A T.

20 USC 275.

SEC. 2. (a) Section 205(b)(1)(F) of such Act is amended by striking out "title" and inserting "Act" in lieu thereof. 20 USC 277. (IJ) Section 207(b) of such Act is amended by inserting "or title III " after "this title" and inserting "or under section 311" after "this section". 20 USC 279. ^(.^ Section 209(a) of such Act is amended by striking out "title" and inserting "Act" in lieu thereof. (d) Section 209(b) of such Act is amended by striking out "title" and inserting "Act" in lieu thereof. (e) Section 209(c) of such Act is amended by inserting after the first sentence the following new sentence: "There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title other than sections 203 and 204; but such sums (exclusive of any sums appropriated for administration) shall not exceed $55,000,000 in the aggregate. Sums appropriated pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be available for paying unpaid entitlements, but no local educational agency shall be paid from such sums an amount which exceeds 70 per centum of its unpaid entitlement. For the purposes of the preceding sentence, the term 'unpaid entitlement' means the amount which the Commissioner would be authorized to pay to a local educational agency from funds appropriated before July 1, 1953, to carry out this title, if such funds were sufficient to make such payment, but which cannot be paid from such funds; except that such amount shall not include any amount to reimburse such agency for any expenditure for construction of school facilities under a contract entered into before September 30, 1950." (f) Section 209(e) of such Act is amended by striking out "title" each time it appears in such section and inserting "Act" in lieu thereof, by striking out "June 30, 1953" and inserting "June 30, 1955" in lieu thereof, and by inserting "authorized, prior to the date of enactment of this Act, for the construction of school facilities to be attended by Indian children or appropriations" immediately before clause (1) thereof. 20 USC 280. (g) The second sentence of section 210(1) of such Act is amended to read as follows: "Such term includes real property which is owned by the United States and leased therefrom and the improvements thereon, even though the lessee's interest, or any improvement on such property, is subject to taxation by a State or a political subdivision of a State or by the District of Columbia." The last sentence of such section 210(1) is amended by striking out "Such" and inserting in lieu thereof "Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, such". (h) Section 210(5) of such Act is amended to read as follows: Determination of "^5) Average daily attendance at, and the membership and average school m e m b e r -.

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daily membership ot, school shall be determined in accordance with State law or, in the absence of State law governing such a determination, in accordance with regulations of the Commissioner; except that, notwithstanding any other provision of this title, title III, or title IV, where the local educational agency of the school district in which any child resides makes or contracts to make a tuition payment for the free public education of such child in a school situated in another school district, for purposes of this title the attendance of such child, and for purposes of titles III and IV the membership of such child, shall be held and considered— " (A) if the two local educational agencies concerned so agree, and if such agreement is approved by the Commissioner, as attendance at (or membership of) a school of the local educational agency receiving such tuition payment;

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