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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4221 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4221

  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to restore National SMART 
              Grants for a certain number of award years.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 10, 2015

  Mr. Carney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL

 
  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to restore National SMART 
              Grants for a certain number of award years.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``SMART Grant Reauthorization Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. RESTORATION OF SMART GRANTS.

    Section 401A of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a-
1) is amended--
            (1) by amending the section heading to read as follows: 
        ``national smart grants'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (1); and
                    (B) by striking ``this section'' and all that 
                follows through ``for the third'' and inserting ``this 
                section for the third'';
            (3) in subsection (c)(3)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B);
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) through (E) 
                as subparagraphs (A) through (C), respectively;
                    (C) in subparagraph (A)(i), as so redesignated--
                            (i) by striking ``or'' at the end of 
                        subclause (I) and inserting ``and'';
                            (ii) by striking ``major in'' and all that 
                        follows through ``the physical'' and inserting 
                        ``major in the physical''; and
                            (iii) by striking subclause (II); and
                    (D) in subparagraph (C)(i), as so redesignated--
                            (i) by striking ``or'' at the end of 
                        subclause (I) and inserting ``and'';
                            (ii) by striking ``major in'' and all that 
                        follows through ``the physical'' and inserting 
                        ``major in the physical''; and
                            (iii) by striking subclause (II);
            (4) in subsection (d)(1)(A)--
                    (A) by striking clauses (i) and (ii);
                    (B) by redesignating clauses (iii) and (iv) as 
                clauses (i) and (ii), respectively;
                    (C) in clause (i), as so redesignated, by striking 
                ``subparagraph (C) or (D)'' and inserting 
                ``subparagraph (A) or (B)''; and
                    (D) in clause (ii), as so redesignated, by striking 
                ``(E)'' and inserting ``(C)'';
            (5) by amending subsection (e)(1) to read as follows:
            ``(1) Authorization and appropriation of funds.--There are 
        authorized to be appropriated, and there are appropriated, out 
        of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for 
        the Department of Education to carry out this section 
        $400,000,000 for fiscal year 2017 and each of the 5 succeeding 
        fiscal years.'';
            (6) by striking subsection (f);
            (7) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (f); and
            (8) in subsection (f), as so redesignated, by striking 
        ``2010-2011'' and inserting ``2020-2021''.
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