minimum eligibility requirement for public law 815

minimum eligibility requirement for public law 815 Sec. 204. (a) The first sentence of section 5(c) of the Act of September 23, 1950 (Public Law 815, Eighty-first Congress), as amended by section 203(a)(3) of this Act, is amended to read as follows: “(c) A local educational agency shall not be eligible to have any amount included in its maximum by reason of paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subsection (a) unless the increase in children referred to in such paragraph, prior to the application of the limitation in subsection id) is at least twenty and— “(1) in the case of paragraph (1) or (2), is— “(A) equal to at least 10 per centum of the number of all children who were in the average daily membership of the schools of such agency during the base year, or “(B) at least one thousand five hundred, whichever is the lesser: and “(2) in the cast of paragraph (3),is— “(A) equal to at least 10 per centum of the number of all children who were in the average daily membership of the schools of such agency during the base year, or “(B) at least two thousand five hundred, whichever is the lesser: Provided, That no local educational agency shall be regarded as eligible under this paragraph (2) unless the Commissioner finds that the construction of additional minimum school facilities for the number of children in such increase will impose an undue financial burden on the taxing and borrowing authority of such agency.” 84 Stat. 158 (b) Section 5(d) of such Act is amended by inserting before the period at the end of the first sentence thereof the following: “, except that the number of children counted for the purposes of paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (a) shall not be reduced by more than one thousand five hundred and that the number of children counted for the purposes of paragraph (3) of subsection (a) shall not be reduced by more than two thousand five hundred”.