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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4776 
To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a competitive grant program 
to award grants to local educational agencies to address implicit bias 
in elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 21, 2019 
Ms. NORTON (for herself and Mr. EVANS) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Education to establish a competi-
tive grant program to award grants to local educational 
agencies to address implicit bias in elementary and sec-
ondary schools, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Combating Implicit 
Bias in Education Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Education 
shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to local edu-
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cational agencies to provide training to educators, prin-
cipals, and other staff of elementary schools and secondary 
schools on implicit bias, for the purposes of— 
(1) ending discrimination based on such bias, 
including— 
(A) in the administration of exclusionary 
discipline (including suspensions and expul-
sions); 
(B) in access to gifted and talented pro-
grams; and 
(C) in the apportionment of academic re-
sources; 
(2) improving the school climate and the rela-
tionships between students and educators, principals, 
and other staff of elementary and secondary schools; 
and 
(3) improving the academic achievement and at-
tainment of students. 
(b) APPLICATION.—A local educational agency desir-
ing to receive a grant under this section shall submit an 
application to the Secretary as the Secretary shall require. 
The application shall include a description of how the local 
educational agency will use the grant to carry out training 
under subsection (a). 
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(c) REPORT.—The Director of the Institute of Edu-
cation Sciences shall conduct a periodic review of the effec-
tiveness of the grant program established by this Act. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the 
purpose of carrying out this Act, there are authorized to 
be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 
through 2022. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 
ACT TERMS.—The terms ‘‘elementary school’’, ‘‘local 
educational agency’’, ‘‘other staff’’, and ‘‘secondary 
school’’ have the meanings given those terms in sec-
tion 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(2) IMPLICIT BIAS.—The term ‘‘implicit bias’’ 
means bias with respect to actual or perceived race, 
religion, sex (including sexual orientation or gender 
identity), disability, ethnicity, or socioeconomic sta-
tus, that results from subconsciously held attitudes, 
beliefs, or associations. 
(3) TRAINING.—The term ‘‘training’’ means 
evidence based, on-going professional development 
and support. 
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