20 U.S.C. § 7710 — Federal administration

(a) Payments in whole dollar amounts: The Secretary must round all payments under this subchapter to the nearest whole dollar. (b) Other agencies: Every federal agency that manages federal property where children live, and every agency responsible for an activity that might trigger help under this subchapter, must give the Secretary any information needed to run the program, as much as is practical. (c) Special rules: (1) Children who would qualify under section 7703(a)(1)(A) -- because they live on federal property or their parent works on it -- but whose federal property sits in a different state than their school, are still treated as eligible, if they meet the requirements in paragraph (2). Children who would qualify under section 7703(a)(1)(G) but do not meet its clause (ii) requirement are also still treated as eligible if they meet paragraph (2)'s requirements. (2) A child meets those requirements if: (A) the child lives either in a state next to the state where their school district is, or with a parent who works on federal property in a neighboring state; (B) the district's schools are a more reasonable commute than the schools in the child's home district; (C) attending the home district's schools would cause the child serious hardship; (D) the state where the child attends school funds that child's education the same way it funds all other public-school children, unless section 7709(b) allows otherwise; and (E) the district received a payment for fiscal year 1999 under section 7703(b) on behalf of these children. (d) Timely payments: (1) The Secretary must pay a district the full amount it is owed for a fiscal year by September 30 of the second fiscal year after the money was appropriated, as long as the district sends the Secretary all needed data within one year after the appropriation. (2) If Congress appropriates too little money to pay every district in full, this rule changes: instead of paying the full amount a district is "eligible to receive," the Secretary pays the full amount that "is available to pay the agency."