efficiency, socialization, recreation and fitness, and 
independent living skills); and age appropriate career 
education. 
SEC. 212. ADMINISTRATION; ELIGIBILITY; GOVERNANCE; 
STRUCTURE. 
(a) ADMINISTRATION.—To carry out the provisions 
of section 211, the Secretary of Education shall enter into 
a contract or cooperative agreement (of no less than 5 
years in duration) with a consortium of entities described 
in subsection (b) which shall, with oversight by the Sec-
retary, have primary responsibility for administering the 
program described in this subtitle. The Secretary shall 
have ongoing authority to enter into such contracts or co-
operative agreements. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—The consortium of entities de-
scribed in subsection (a) shall include— 
(1) at least two national nonprofit organizations 
with demonstrated experience publishing materials, 
offering direct professional development opportuni-
ties, and disseminating course curricula supporting 
the preparation or continuing education of teachers 
of students with visual impairments and related 
services personnel; 
(2) at least one national nonprofit organization 
(which may include a special school serving students 
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who are blind) with demonstrated experience directly 
serving students with visual disabilities (including 
students who may or may not have additional dis-
abilities) through in-person instruction and services 
meeting their unique learning needs; 
(3) at least one institution of higher education 
that— 
(A) has consistently maintained for at 
least ten years a program of instruction pre-
paring teachers of students with visual impair-
ments or orientation and mobility instructors; 
(B) offers a program of doctoral study in 
special education; and 
(C) maintains a Carnegie Classification as 
a Doctoral Research University; and 
(4) any other entity or entities with which the 
entities described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) 
choose to partner (with approval of the Secretary). 
(c) GOVERNANCE.—As part of the Secretary’s over-
sight responsibilities, the Secretary shall appoint an advi-
sory board (of no more than 12 individual members who 
do not have a concurrent fiscal, fiduciary, or employment 
relationship with any of the entities comprising the consor-
tium described in subsection (b)) which shall advise the 
Secretary and such consortium of entities with respect to 
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strategic planning and annual program performance. The 
advisory board shall be comprised of individuals with per-
sonal or professional experience with the needs of students 
with visual disabilities and shall include parents of stu-
dents with visual disabilities, administrators of special 
education programs, and representatives of national orga-
nizations of individuals who are blind or visually impaired. 
The Secretary is authorized to compensate the members 
of the advisory board for reasonable expenses incurred for 
travel related to in-person meetings of the advisory board 
which shall occur no more frequently than three times 
within a calendar year. The provisions of the Federal Ad-
visory Committee Act shall not apply to meetings or other 
activities of the advisory board. Prior to the appointment 
of any individual to the advisory board, the Secretary shall 
consult with such consortium of entities which may also 
nominate individuals to the Secretary for advisory board 
membership. 
(d) STRUCTURE.—The Secretary, as part of the con-
tract or cooperative agreement described in subsection (a), 
shall ensure that such contract or cooperative agreement 
specifies any and all necessary fiscal and other responsibil-
ities between and among the entities described in sub-
section (b) whom shall propose such responsibilities to the 
Secretary in an application for award of such contract or 
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cooperative agreement containing such information as the 
Secretary may require. 
SEC. 213. ACTIVITIES. 
Subject to the provisions of this subtitle, the Anne 
Sullivan Macy Center on Visual Disability and Edu-
cational Excellence is authorized— 
(1) to conduct or fund original quantitative and 
qualitative research and publish or otherwise dis-
seminate such research; 
(2) to conduct or fund in-person and on-line 
continuing education opportunities for teachers of 
students with visual impairments and related serv-
ices personnel specifically trained to meet the unique 
learning needs of such students, and prepare, pub-
lish or otherwise disseminate supporting materials; 
(3) to conduct or fund in-person or online en-
richment projects for students with visual disabilities 
(including those who may also have additional dis-
abilities) to offer direct instruction and services in-
tended to improve the capacity of such students to 
learn effectively and live both productively and inde-
pendently for the purpose of— 
(A) supplementing the availability of such 
instruction and services offered by State and 
local educational agencies; and 
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(B) evaluating, through appropriate quan-
titative and qualitative methods, the effective-
ness of instruction and services offered by such 
projects; 
(4) to fund, in accordance with regulations oth-
erwise applicable to personnel preparation programs 
supported under part D of the Individuals with Dis-
abilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1450 et seq.), the 
establishment of programs within institutions of 
higher education preparing teachers of students with 
visual impairments (which have not been previously 
funded under such Part) to specifically prepare such 
teachers to provide expert instruction to students 
with visual disabilities who also have additional dis-
abilities; and 
(5) enter into cooperative agreements, con-
tracts, grants (or other arrangements which may be 
permitted by the Secretary) with nonprofit organiza-
tions possessing demonstrable expertise and experi-
ence serving students with visual disabilities or the 
professionals trained to work with such students, in-
stitutions of higher education, State and local edu-
cational agencies, public and private specialized 
schools serving students with visual disabilities, and 
consortia of such entities, for the purpose of car-
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rying out activities authorized in this subsection that 
are not otherwise directly conducted, in whole or in 
part, by the Anne Sullivan Macy Center. 
SEC. 214. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS AND CAR-
RYOVER. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To carry 
out the provisions of this subtitle, there are authorized to 
be appropriated such sums as may be necessary, provided 
that for fiscal year 2015 and for each succeeding fiscal 
year, the amount appropriated shall be an amount equal 
to no less than 0.2 percent of funds appropriated in the 
previous fiscal year for grants to States under part B of 
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. 
(b) CARRYOVER.—Funds appropriated pursuant to 
subsection (a) that have not been expended during the fis-
cal year for which they were appropriated shall remain 
available in the subsequent fiscal year, provided that no 
more than 15 percent of a given fiscal year’s appropriation 
may be so carried over. 
SEC. 215. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER PROGRAMS AND AC-
TIVITIES. 
(a) MAXIMIZING RESOURCES.—No funds made avail-
able pursuant to subtitle may be used to fund programs 
or activities otherwise concurrently funded under parts D 
and E of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. 
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(b) COORDINATION OF RESEARCH.—The Secretary 
shall ensure that research activities authorized and carried 
out pursuant to this title are conducted or funded in co-
ordination as appropriate with the National Center for 
Special Education Research and other divisions within the 
Department of Education responsible for research activi-
ties. 
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO SERVICES OFFERED BY THE 
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND.—Nothing 
in this subtitle shall be construed to limit or otherwise con-
dition the use of any funds appropriated pursuant to chap-
ter 6 of title 20, United States Code, and no funds made 
available pursuant to this subtitle shall be used by any 
State or local educational agency to supplant the use of 
funds appropriated under such chapter. 
(d) RELATIONSHIP TO FUNDING FOR DEAF-BLIND 
EDUCATION AND FOR THE HELEN KELLER NATIONAL 
CENTER.—The Secretary shall ensure that any activities 
conducted or funded by the Anne Sullivan Macy Center 
directly serving individuals who are deaf-blind are coordi-
nated as appropriate with the Helen Keller National Cen-
ter. No funds made available pursuant to this title may 
be used to support activities that are otherwise the sole 
responsibility of the Helen Keller National Center or may 
be used to supplant funds for such Center. The Secretary 
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shall ensure that no funds made available pursuant to this 
title are used to support activities that are to be funded 
pursuant to section 682(d)(1)(A) of the Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1482(d)(2)(A)). 
(e) WORK PRODUCT.—All matter produced by the 
Anne Sullivan Macy Center shall be the property of the 
United States, except that entities comprising the consor-
tium of entities described in section 212(b) shall be indi-
vidually free, within the terms of the contract or coopera-
tive agreement described in section 212(a), to reproduce, 
or author copyrighted derivative works using, such matter. 
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