SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) CLASSROOM-USABLE.—The term ‘‘class-
room-usable’’, with respect to potential educationally 
useful Federal equipment, means such equipment 
that does not require an upgrade of hardware or 
software in order to be used by an educational re-
cipient or military family recipient without being 
first transferred under section 4(d) to a nonprofit 
refurbisher for such an upgrade. 
(2) COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATIONAL ORGANI-
ZATION.—The term ‘‘community-based educational 
organization’’ means a nonprofit entity that— 
(A) is engaged in collaborative projects 
with schools or the primary focus of which is 
education; and 
(B) qualifies as a nonprofit educational in-
stitution or organization for purposes of section 
549(c)(3) of title 40, United States Code. 
(3) 
EDUCATIONAL
RECIPIENT.—The 
term 
‘‘educational recipient’’ means a school or a commu-
nity-based educational organization. 
(4) FEDERAL
AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Federal 
agency’’ means an Executive agency as defined 
under section 105 of title 5, United States Code. 
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(5) MILITARY FAMILY RECIPIENT.—The term 
‘‘military family recipient’’ means a member of the 
immediate family of a member of the Armed Forces 
who is deployed. 
(6) 
NONPROFIT
REFURBISHER.—The 
term 
‘‘nonprofit refurbisher’’ means an organization 
that— 
(A) is described under section 501(c) of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt 
from taxation under section 501(a) of such 
Code; and 
(B) upgrades potential educationally useful 
Federal equipment that is not yet classroom-us-
able at no cost or low cost to the ultimate edu-
cational recipient or military family recipient. 
(7) POTENTIAL EDUCATIONALLY USEFUL FED-
ERAL EQUIPMENT.—The term ‘‘potential education-
ally useful Federal equipment’’— 
(A) means computers and related periph-
eral tools (such as computer printers, modems, 
routers, and servers), including telecommuni-
cations and research equipment, that are appro-
priate for use by an educational recipient or a 
military family recipient; and 
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(B) includes computer software, if the 
transfer of a license is permitted. 
(8) SCHOOL.—The term ‘‘school’’ includes a 
pre-kindergarten program (as that term is used in 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965), an elementary school, a secondary school, 
and a local educational agency (as those terms are 
defined in section 9101 of that Act). 
SEC. 3. PROTECTION OF POTENTIAL EDUCATIONALLY USE-
FUL FEDERAL EQUIPMENT. 
Each Federal agency shall, to the extent practicable, 
protect and safeguard potential educationally useful Fed-
eral equipment that has been determined to be surplus, 
so that such equipment may be transferred under this Act. 
SEC. 4. EFFICIENT TRANSFER OF POTENTIAL EDUCATION-
ALLY USEFUL FEDERAL EQUIPMENT. 
(a) TRANSFER OF EQUIPMENT TO GSA.—Each Fed-
eral agency, to the extent permitted by law and where ap-
propriate, shall— 
(1) identify potential educationally useful Fed-
eral equipment that the Federal agency no longer 
needs or such equipment that has been declared sur-
plus in accordance with section 549 of title 40, 
United States Code; 
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