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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 2037 

To amend the STEM education program for American Indian, Alaska Native, 

and Native Hawaiian students under the Higher Education Act of 1965. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 27, 2019 

Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself and Mr. SCHATZ) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To amend the STEM education program for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students 

under the Higher Education Act of 1965. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Building Indigenous 

5 STEM Professionals Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. IMPROVING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, 

2 AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION WITH A 

3 FOCUS ON AMERICAN INDIAN, ALASKA NA4 TIVE, AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN STUDENTS. 

5 Section 819 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 

6 U.S.C. 1161j) is amended— 

7 (1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘ALAS8 KA NATIVE AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN’’ and insert9 ing ‘‘AMERICAN INDIAN, ALASKA NATIVE, AND

10 NATIVE HAWAIIAN’’; 

11 (2) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ‘‘Alaska 

12 Natives and Native Hawaiians’’ and inserting 

13 ‘‘American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Ha14 waiians to enable them to succeed in these fields’’; 

15 (3) in subsection (b)— 

16 (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), 

17 (3), and (4), as paragraphs (2), (4), (5), and 

18 (6), respectively; 

19 (B) by inserting before paragraph (2), as 

20 redesignated by subparagraph (A), the fol21 lowing: 

22 ‘‘(1) NATIVE AMERICAN.—The term ‘Native 

23 American’ includes Alaska Natives, American Indi24 ans, and Native Hawaiians.’’; 

25 (C) by inserting after paragraph (2), as re26 designated by subparagraph (A), the following: 


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1 ‘‘(3) AMERICAN INDIAN.—The term ‘American 

2 Indian’ has the meaning given the term ‘Indian’ in 

3 section 202 of the Indian Land Consolidation Act 

4 (25 U.S.C. 2201).’’; 

5 (4) in subsection (c)— 

6 (A) by inserting ‘‘create or’’ after ‘‘to en7 able the eligible partnership to’’; 

8 (B) by inserting ‘‘Native American’’ after 

9 ‘‘the development of’’; and 

10 (C) by striking ‘‘, including existing pro11 grams for Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian 

12 students’’; 

13 (5) in subsection (d)— 

14 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Alaska 

15 Native or Native Hawaiian students’’ and in16 serting ‘‘programs that serve Native American 

17 students’’; 

18 (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Alaska 

19 Native and Native Hawaiian students’’ and in20 serting ‘‘programs that serve Native American 

21 students’’; and 

22 (C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘Alaska 

23 Native or Native Hawaiian students’’ and in24 serting ‘‘Native American students’’; 


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1 (6) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘30 percent or 

2 more of the program participants are Alaska Native 

3 or Native Hawaiian’’ and inserting ‘‘70 percent or 

4 more of the program participants are Native Amer5 ican’’; and 

6 (7) in subsection (i), by striking ‘‘2009’’ and in7 serting ‘‘2020’’. 

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