Section 388.1611bb - Governor's emergency education relief (GEER) fund; reallocation(1) From the federal fund money appropriated under section 11, there is allocated for 2023-2024 the amount remaining, estimated at $13,300,000.00, from the federal funding awarded to this state that has reverted to the governor's emergency education relief fund under provisions of section 2002 of the American rescue plan act of 2021, Public Law 117-2, for the purposes described in this section.(2) The department shall make funding under this section available to districts and intermediate districts in the same proportion as funding was made available to districts and intermediate districts under the formula distribution of the original governor's emergency education relief fund dollars received and distributed by the state under the coronavirus aid, relief, and economic security act, Public Law 116-136.(3) Districts and intermediate districts shall use funding received under this section for allowable uses to respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency and its negative impacts, including, but not limited to, its negative impacts on mental health, as determined by the department.(4) The department shall develop a process to award and make funding available to districts and intermediate districts in a time frame that allows districts and intermediate districts to properly obligate these funds before the federal obligation deadlines for these funds.(5) The department may utilize a portion of funding allocated under this section, up to the amount allowable under federal guidance, for the purposes of administering this section.Added by 2024, Act 120,s 8, eff. 7/23/2024.