1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Public School Emergency Relief Act . 2. Findings The Congress finds the following: (1) In 2017, the United States experienced an unprecedented influx in arrivals of unaccompanied alien children. (2) In fiscal year 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement released 42,417 unaccompanied alien children to sponsors nationwide. (3) Federal law, as upheld by the Supreme Court decision in Plyer v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), permits all children residing in the United States access to a public elementary and secondary education regardless of their immigration status. (4) An unprecedented influx of unaccompanied alien children has resulted in a strain on the Nation’s public school system. (5) In response to these conditions, this Act creates an emergency grant for the 2017–2018 school year tailored to the needs of local educational agencies affected by enrollment increases attributable to unaccompanied alien children. 3. Temporary emergency impact aid for immigrant students (a) Temporary emergency impact aid authorized (1) Aid to State educational agencies From amounts appropriated to carry out this Act, the Secretary of Education shall provide emergency impact aid to State educational agencies to enable the State educational agencies to make emergency impact aid payments to eligible local educational agencies and eligible BIA-funded schools to enable such eligible local educational agencies and schools to provide for the instruction of students served by such agencies and schools. (2) Aid to local educational agencies and BIA-funded schools A State educational agency shall make emergency impact aid payments to eligible local educational agencies and eligible BIA-funded schools in accordance with subsection (c). (3) Notice of funds availability Not later than 14 calendar days after funds are made available to carry out this Act, the Secretary of Education shall publish in the Federal Register a notice of the availability of funds under this