I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6334 
To support coding education. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 11, 2018 
Mr. CA´RDENAS (for himself and Mr. OLSON) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To support coding education. 
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 ‘‘Coding Opportunities 
and Development for Equitable Students Act’’ or the 
‘‘High School CODES Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) CODING.—The term ‘‘coding’’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 114(e)(6) of the 
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education 
Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2324(e)(6)). 
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(2) COMPUTER SCIENCE.—The term ‘‘computer 
science’’ means the study of computers and algo-
rithmic processes, including the principles, hardware 
and software designs, implementation, and impact 
on society, of computers and algorithmic processes. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF THE HOUSE. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that— 
(1) States should support high schools in recog-
nizing coding and computer science classes as class-
es that count toward the fulfillment of graduation 
requirements; 
(2) it should be a priority to create a national 
strategy to incorporate computer science and coding 
into the elementary and secondary educational sys-
tem in the United States; 
(3) learning to write and read code is critical to 
creating and innovating in cyberspace, and learning 
to write and read code is a skill critical to the na-
tional security and economic competitiveness of the 
United States; and 
(4) the modernization of the educational system 
in the United States is a priority, and modernization 
is necessary to bolster the next generation of high- 
tech workers. 
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SEC. 4. CODING DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. 
Section 114 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Tech-
nical Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2324) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (e) as sub-
section (f); 
(2) in subsection (d)(2)(A), by striking ‘‘sub-
section (e)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (f)’’; 
(3) in subsection (d)(4)(A), by striking ‘‘sub-
section (e)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (f)’’; and 
(4) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(e) CODING DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall carry 
out a coding demonstration program, through which 
the Secretary shall award grants to local educational 
agencies to enable those local educational agencies to 
establish new programs or expand existing programs 
that allow high school students to take a coding 
class in place of a mathematics, science, or foreign 
language class in order to fulfill a graduation re-
quirement. 
‘‘(2) APPLICATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—A local educational 
agency desiring a grant under this subsection 
shall submit an application to the Secretary at 
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such time, in such manner, and containing such 
information as the Secretary may require, in-
cluding the information described in subpara-
graph (B). 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—An application sub-
mitted under subparagraph (A) shall include— 
‘‘(i) a strategy for obtaining future 
funding to sustain the program after the 
grant has ended from State, private, or 
other non-Federal funding sources; 
‘‘(ii) a spending plan; 
‘‘(iii) a description of the goals of the 
program; and 
‘‘(iv) a description of the statistics the 
local educational agency will collect to in-
clude in the local educational agency’s re-
port to the Secretary described under para-
graph (4). 
‘‘(3) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this 
subsection, the Secretary shall give priority to a 
local educational agency submitting an application 
under paragraph (2) that is located in a rural or un-
derserved area. 
‘‘(4) REPORT.—Not later than 5 years after the 
date of enactment of this subsection, each local edu-
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cational agency receiving a grant under paragraph 
(1) shall submit to the Secretary a report about the 
coding program activities carried out with grant 
funds, including information and statistics about 
that program’s findings, successes, and failures. 
‘‘(5) SUNSET.—This subsection shall remain in 
effect until the date that is 5 years after the date 
of enactment of this subsection. 
‘‘(6) DEFINITIONS.— 
‘‘(A) CODING.—In this subsection, the 
term ‘coding’ means the creation and modifica-
tion of— 
‘‘(i) source code (defined as any series 
of statements written in some human-read-
able computer programming language); or 
‘‘(ii) machine code (defined as instruc-
tions for a computer processor in some ma-
chine language). 
‘‘(B) HIGH SCHOOL.—In this subsection, 
the term ‘high school’ has the meaning given 
the term in section 8101 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
7801).’’. 
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