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Calendar No. 244

107TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1499

[Report No. 107–101]

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JULY 31, 2001

Received

AUGUST 2, 2001

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2001

Reported by Mr. LIEBERMAN, with an amendment and an amendment to the

title

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]

AN ACT

To amend the District of Columbia College Access Act of

1999 to permit individuals who graduated from a secondary school prior to 1998 and individuals who enroll

in an institution of higher education more than 3 years

after graduating from a secondary school to participate

in the tuition assistance programs under such Act, and

for other purposes.

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

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia

3 College Access Act Technical Corrections Act of 2001’’.

4 SEC. 2. REVISIONS TO ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR

5 TUITION ASSISTANCE UNDER DISTRICT OF

6 COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS ACT.

7 (a) PERMITTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO PARTICI8 PATE IN TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.—

9 (1) INDIVIDUALS GRADUATING FROM SEC10 ONDARY SCHOOL PRIOR TO 1998.—Section

11 3(c)(2)(B) of the District of Columbia College Ac12 cess Act of 1999 (Public Law 106–98; 113 Stat.

13 1325) is amended by striking ‘‘on or after January

14 1, 1998’’.

15 (2) INDIVIDUALS ENROLLING MORE THAN 3

16 YEARS AFTER GRADUATING FROM SECONDARY

17 SCHOOL.—Section 3(c)(2) of such Act (Public Law

18 106–98; 113 Stat. 1325) is amended by striking

19 subparagraph (C).

20 (b) PROHIBITING PARTICIPATION OF FOREIGN NA21 TIONALS.—Section 3(c)(2) of such Act (Public Law 106–

22 98; 113 Stat. 1325), as amended by subsection (a)(2), is

23 amended by inserting after subparagraph (B) the fol24 lowing:

25 ‘‘(C) meets the citizenship and immigra26 tion status requirements described in section
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1 484(a)(5) of the Higher Education Act of 1965

2 (20 U.S.C. 1091(a)(5));’’.

3 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

4 The amendments made by this Act shall take effect

5 on the date of the enactment of this Act.

6 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

7 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia

8 College Access Improvement Act of 2001’’.

9 SEC. 2. PUBLIC SCHOOL PROGRAM.

10 Section 3(c)(2) of the District of Columbia College Ac11 cess Act of 1999 is amended by striking subparagraphs (A)

12 through (C) and inserting the following:

13 ‘‘(A)(i) for individuals who begin an under14 graduate course of study within 3 calendar years

15 (excluding any period of service on active duty

16 in the armed forces, or service under the Peace

17 Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.) or subtitle D

18 of title I of the National and Community Service

19 Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12571 et seq.)) of gradua20 tion from a secondary school, or obtaining the

21 recognized equivalent of a secondary school di22 ploma, was domiciled in the District of Colum23 bia for not less than the 12 consecutive months

24 preceding the commencement of the freshman

25 year at an institution of higher education; or
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1 ‘‘(ii) for all other individuals and for those

2 applicants re-enrolling after more than a 3–year

3 break in their post-secondary education, has been

4 domiciled in the District of Columbia for at least

5 5 consecutive years at the date of application;

6 ‘‘(B)(i) graduated from a secondary school

7 or received the recognized equivalent of a sec8 ondary school diploma on or after January 1,

9 1998;

10 ‘‘(ii) for applicants that did not graduate

11 from a secondary school or receive a recognized

12 equivalent of a secondary school diploma, is ac13 cepted for enrollment as a freshman at an eligi14 ble institution on or after January 1, 2002; or

15 ‘‘(iii) for applicants who graduated from a

16 secondary school or received the recognized equiv17 alent of a secondary school diploma before Janu18 ary 1, 1998, is currently enrolled at an eligible

19 institution as of the date of enactment of the

20 District of Columbia College Access Improvement

21 Act of 2001;

22 ‘‘(C) meets the citizenship and immigration

23 status requirements described in section

24 484(a)(5) of the Higher Education Act of 1965

25 (20 U.S.C. 1091(a)(5));’’.
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1 SEC. 3. PRIVATE SCHOOL PROGRAM.

2 Section 5(c)(1)(B) of the District of Columbia College

3 Access Act of 1999 is amended by striking ‘‘The main cam4 pus of which is located in the State of Maryland or the

5 Commonwealth of Virginia’’.

6 SEC. 4. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.

7 Section 6 of the District of Columbia College Access

8 Act of 1999 is amended—

9 (1) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the

10 following:

11 ‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—

12 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Mayor of the District of

13 Columbia may not use more than 7 percent of the

14 total amount of Federal funds appropriated for the

15 program, retroactive to the date of enactment of this

16 Act (the District of Columbia College Access Act of

17 1999), for the administrative expenses of the program.

18 ‘‘(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term

19 ‘administrative expenses’ means any expenses that are

20 not directly used to pay the cost of tuition and fees

21 for eligible students to attend eligible institutions.’’;

22 (2) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as

23 subsections (f) and (g);

24 (3) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol25 lowing:
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1 ‘‘(e) LOCAL FUNDS.—It is the sense of Congress that

2 the District of Columbia may appropriate such local funds

3 as necessary for the Program.’’; and

4 (4) by inserting at the end the following:

5 ‘‘(h) DEDICATED ACCOUNT FOR THE RESIDENT TUI6 TION SUPPORT PROGRAM.—The District of Columbia gov7 ernment shall establish a dedicated account for the Resident

8 Tuition Support Program that shall consist of the Federal

9 funds appropriated to the Program in this Act and any

10 subsequent appropriations, any unobligated balances from

11 prior fiscal years, and any interest earned in this or any

12 fiscal years. The funds in this dedicated account may be

13 used to help pay the cost of tuition and fees for eligible stu14 dents to attend eligible institutions if the fiscal year appro15 priation for that year is insufficient to cover the cost of

16 tuition and fees for that year.’’.

17 Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘An Act to amend the

18 District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 to permit

19 individuals who enroll in an institution of higher education

20 more than 3 years after graduating from a secondary

21 school and individuals who attend private historically

22 black colleges and universities nationwide to participate in

23 the tuition assistance programs under such Act, and for

24 other purposes.’’.

Calendar No. 244

107TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1499

[Report No. 107–101]

AN ACT

To amend the District of Columbia College Access

Act of 1999 to permit individuals who graduatedfrom a secondary school prior to 1998 and individuals who enroll in an institution of higher education more than 3 years after graduating froma secondary school to participate in the tuitionassistance programs under such Act, and forother purposes.

NOVEMBER 29, 2001

Reported with an amendment and an amendment to the

title