In the Senate of the United States,

December 12, 2001.

Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 1499) entitled ‘‘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.’’, do pass with the following

AMENDMENTS:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

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

3 College Access Improvement Act of 2001’’.
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1 SEC. 2. PUBLIC SCHOOL PROGRAM.

2 Section 3(c)(2) of the District of Columbia College Ac3 cess Act of 1999 is amended by striking subparagraphs (A)

4 through (C) and inserting the following:

5 ‘‘(A)(i) for individuals who begin an under6 graduate course of study within 3 calendar years

7 (excluding any period of service on active duty

8 in the armed forces, or service under the Peace

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

10 of title I of the National and Community Service

11 Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12571 et seq.)) of gradua12 tion from a secondary school, or obtaining the

13 recognized equivalent of a secondary school di14 ploma, was domiciled in the District of Colum15 bia for not less than the 12 consecutive months

16 preceding the commencement of the freshman

17 year at an institution of higher education;

18 ‘‘(ii) for individuals who graduated from a

19 secondary school or received the recognized equiv20 alent of a secondary school diploma before Janu21 ary 1, 1998, and is currently enrolled at an eli22 gible institution as of the date of enactment of

23 the District of Columbia College Access Improve24 ment Act of 2001, was domiciled in the District

25 of Columbia for not less than the 12 consecutive

26 months preceding the commencement of the fresh-
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1 man year at an institution of higher education;

2 or

3 ‘‘(iii) for all other individuals and for those

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

5 break in their post-secondary education, has been

6 domiciled in the District of Columbia for at least

7 5 consecutive years at the date of application;

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

9 or received the recognized equivalent of a sec10 ondary school diploma on or after January 1,

11 1998;

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

13 from a secondary school or receive a recognized

14 equivalent of a secondary school diploma, is ac15 cepted for enrollment as a freshman at an eligi16 ble institution on or after January 1, 2002; or

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

18 secondary school or received the recognized equiv19 alent of a secondary school diploma before Janu20 ary 1, 1998, is currently enrolled at an eligible

21 institution as of the date of enactment of the

22 District of Columbia College Access Improvement

23 Act of 2001;

24 ‘‘(C) meets the citizenship and immigration

25 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. PRIVATE SCHOOL PROGRAM.

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

5 Access Act of 1999 is amended by striking ‘‘The main cam6 pus of which is located in the State of Maryland or the

7 Commonwealth of Virginia’’.

8 SEC. 4. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.

9 Section 6 of the District of Columbia College Access

10 Act of 1999 is amended—

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

12 following:

13 ‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—

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

15 Columbia may not use more than 7 percent of the

16 total amount of Federal funds appropriated for the

17 program, retroactive to the date of enactment of this

18 Act (the District of Columbia College Access Act of

19 1999), for the administrative expenses of the program.

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

21 ‘administrative expenses’ means any expenses that are

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

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

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

25 subsections (f) and (g);
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1 (3) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol2 lowing:

3 ‘‘(e) LOCAL FUNDS.—It is the sense of Congress that

4 the District of Columbia may appropriate such local funds

5 as necessary for the Program.’’; and

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

7 ‘‘(h) DEDICATED ACCOUNT FOR THE RESIDENT TUI8 TION SUPPORT PROGRAM.—The District of Columbia gov9 ernment shall establish a dedicated account for the Resident

10 Tuition Support Program that shall consist of the Federal

11 funds appropriated to the Program in this Act and any

12 subsequent appropriations, any unobligated balances from

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

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

15 used to help pay the cost of tuition and fees for eligible stu16 dents to attend eligible institutions if the fiscal year appro17 priation for that year is insufficient to cover the cost of

18 tuition and fees for that year.’’.

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

District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 to permit individuals who enroll in an institution of higher education more than 3 years after graduating from a secondary school and individuals who attend private historically black colleges and universities nationwide to partici-
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pate in the tuition assistance programs under such Act,

and for other purposes.’’.

Attest:

Secretary.
107TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1499

AMENDMENTS