To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 institutions.

Subjects: Agriculture and Food, Education

Summary:  <p>This bill provides specified funds to the 1890 Scholarships Program for FY2025 and each succeeding year for student scholarships. The bill also permanently reauthorizes the 1890 Scholarships Program. This National Institute of Food and Agriculture program provides grants to 1890 Institutions (i.e., historically Black colleges and universities that belong to the U.S. land-grant university system) for students who intend to pursue a career in the food and agricultural sciences.</p>

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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1436 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1436

  To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 
                             institutions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2023

  Mr. David Scott of Georgia (for himself, Ms. Adams, Ms. Sewell, Ms. 
   Crockett, Ms. Brown, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Mrs. Hayes, and Mr. 
  McGovern) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 
                             institutions.

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

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS AT 1890 
              INSTITUTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1446(b) of the National Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
3222a(b)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs 
        (3) and (4), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) Continuing mandatory funding.--Of the funds of the 
        Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall make 
        available to carry out this section $10,000,000 for fiscal year 
        2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to remain available until 
        expended.''; and
            (3) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated), by striking 
        ``each of fiscal years 2020 through 2023'' and inserting 
        ``fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 1446 of the National 
Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3222a) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(3), by striking ``subsection (b)(1)'' 
        and inserting ``paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (b)''; and
            (2) in paragraph (4) of subsection (b) (as redesignated by 
        subsection (a)(1)), by striking ``paragraphs (1) and (2)'' and 
        inserting ``paragraphs (1), (2), and (3)''.
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