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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1051 

To direct the Secretary of Education to establish and maintain a public 

website through which individuals may find a complete database of available scholarships, fellowships, and other programs of financial assistance 

in the study of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 14, 2007 

Mr. HOLT (for himself, Mr. REGULA, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mrs. BIGGERT, Ms. 

WOOLSEY, Mr. WOLF, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, Mr. 

EMANUEL, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. PUTNAM, Mr. 

ALLEN, Mr. BERMAN, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. CUMMINGS, 

Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. JOHNSON

of Georgia, Ms. LEE, Mr. LIPINSKI, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California, Mr. 

MCNERNEY, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. SMITH of Washington, 

Mr. STARK, and Ms. SUTTON) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of Education to establish and maintain a public website through which individuals may find 

a complete database of available scholarships, fellowships, 

and other programs of financial assistance in the study 

of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. 

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 ‘‘National STEM Schol3 arship Database Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. NATIONAL DATABASE ON FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 

5 FOR STUDY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, EN6 GINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS. 

7 (a) ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF DATA8 BASE.— 

9 (1) DATABASE.—The Secretary of Education 

10 shall establish and maintain, on the public website 

11 of the Department of Education, a database con12 sisting of information on scholarships, fellowships, 

13 and other programs of financial assistance available 

14 from public and private sources for the study of 

15 science, technology, engineering, or mathematics at 

16 the post-secondary and post-baccalaureate levels. 

17 (2) PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION.—The in18 formation maintained on the database established 

19 under this section shall be displayed on the website 

20 in the following manner: 

21 (A) Separate information shall be provided 

22 for each of the fields of study referred to in 

23 paragraph (1) and for post-secondary and post24 baccalaureate programs of financial assistance. 

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1 ance which are targeted to individuals of a par2 ticular gender, ethnicity, or other demographic 

3 group. 

4 (C) If the sponsor of any program of fi5 nancial assistance included on the database 

6 maintains a public website, the database shall 

7 provide hyperlinks to the website. 

8 (D) In addition to providing the hyperlink 

9 to the website of a sponsor of a program of fi10 nancial assistance as required under subpara11 graph (C), the database shall provide general 

12 information that an interested person may use 

13 to contact the sponsor, including the sponsor’s 

14 electronic mail address. 

15 (E) The database shall have a search capa16 bility which permits an individual to search for 

17 information on the basis of each category of the 

18 information provided and on the basis of com19 binations of categories of the information pro20 vided. 

21 (b) DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ON DATA22 BASE.—The Secretary shall take such actions as may be 

23 necessary on an ongoing basis, including sending notices 

24 to secondary schools and institutions of higher education, 

25 to disseminate information on the database established 


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1 and maintained under this Act and to encourage its use 

2 by interested parties. 

3 (c) USE OF VENDOR TO OBTAIN INFORMATION.—In 

4 carrying out this Act, the Secretary of Education shall 

5 enter into a contract with a private entity under which 

6 the entity shall furnish and regularly update all of the in7 formation required to be maintained on the database es8 tablished under this section. 

9 SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

10 There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 

11 this Act such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 

12 2008 through 2012. 

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