In the Senate of the United States, 

February 3, 2016. 

Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 3033) entitled ‘‘An Act to require the President’s 

annual budget request to Congress each year to include a line 

item for the Research in Disabilities Education program of 

the National Science Foundation and to require the National 

Science Foundation to conduct research on dyslexia.’’, do 

pass with the following 

AMENDMENT: 

Strike section 4 of the bill and insert the following: 

1 SEC. 4. DYSLEXIA. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Consistent with subsection (c), the 

3 National Science Foundation shall support multi-direc4 torate, merit-reviewed, and competitively awarded research 

5 on the science of specific learning disability, including dys6 lexia, such as research on the early identification of children 

7 and students with dyslexia, professional development for 

8 teachers and administrators of students with dyslexia, cur9 ricula and educational tools needed for children with dys-
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1 lexia, and implementation and scaling of successful models 

2 of dyslexia intervention. Research supported under this sub3 section shall be conducted with the goal of practical applica4 tion. 

5 (b) AWARDS.—To promote development of early career 

6 researchers, in awarding funds under subsection (a) the Na7 tional Science Foundation shall prioritize applications for 

8 funding submitted by early career researchers. 

9 (c) COORDINATION.—To prevent unnecessary duplica10 tion of research, activities under this Act shall be coordi11 nated with similar activities supported by other Federal 

12 agencies, including research funded by the Institute of Edu13 cation Sciences and the National Institutes of Health. 

14 (d) FUNDING.—The National Science Foundation 

15 shall devote not less than $5,000,000 to research described 

16 in subsection (a), which shall include not less than 

17 $2,500,000 for research on the science of dyslexia, for each 

18 of fiscal years 2017 through 2021, subject to the availability 

19 of appropriations, to come from amounts made available 

20 for the Research and Related Activities account or the Edu21 cation and Human Resources Directorate under subsection 

22 (e). This section shall be carried out using funds otherwise 

23 appropriated by law after the date of enactment of this Act. 

24 (e) AUTHORIZATION.—For each of fiscal years 2016 

25 through 2021, there are authorized out of funds appro-
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1 priated to the National Science Foundation, $5,000,000 to 

2 carry out the activities described in subsection (a). 

3 SEC. 5. DEFINITION OF SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY. 

4 In this Act, the term ‘‘specific learning disability’’— 

5 (1) means a disorder in 1 or more of the basic 

6 psychological processes involved in understanding or 

7 in using language, spoken or written, which disorder 

8 may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, 

9 think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical 

10 calculations; 

11 (2) includes such conditions as perceptual dis12 abilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, 

13 dyslexia, and developmental aphasia; and 

14 (3) does not include a learning problem that is 

15 primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor dis16 abilities, of intellectual disability, of emotional dis17 turbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic 

18 disadvantage. 

Attest: 

Secretary. 
114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H.R. 3033 

AMENDMENT