Now that the Supreme Court has ruled on the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow Case, lawmakers are working to steer those lost funds back to local school districts.

In a new bill, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown says millions of tax dollars were siphoned away from Ohio’s public schools and given to ECOT. The online charter school closed in January after the state said it overstated the number of students it actually served.

Brown says any lost federal funds should be given back to the home school districts of the ECOT students.

“If you defraud the government, if you steal from taxpayers, especially if you inflict pain on students like this then you pay,” Brown said. “You don’t just suffer criminal penalties; you pay it back.”

ECOT received nearly $130 million from the federal government since 2001, according to Brown. He hopes to get the bill passed by the end of the year.