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Calendar No. 244
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1499
[Report No. 107–101]
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 31, 2001
Received
AUGUST 2, 2001
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs
NOVEMBER 29, 2001
Reported by Mr. LIEBERMAN, with an amendment and an amendment to the
title
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
AN ACT
To amend the District of Columbia College Access Act of
1999 to permit individuals who graduated from a sec-
ondary school prior to 1998 and individuals who enroll
in an institution of higher education more than 3 years
after graduating from a secondary school to participate
in the tuition assistance programs under such Act, 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 ‘‘District of Columbia
College Access Act Technical Corrections Act of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. REVISIONS TO ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR
TUITION ASSISTANCE UNDER DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS ACT.
(a) PERMITTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO PARTICI-
PATE IN TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.—
(1)
INDIVIDUALS
GRADUATING
FROM
SEC-
ONDARY
SCHOOL
PRIOR
TO
1998.—Section
3(c)(2)(B) of the District of Columbia College Ac-
cess Act of 1999 (Public Law 106–98; 113 Stat.
1325) is amended by striking ‘‘on or after January
1, 1998’’.
(2) INDIVIDUALS
ENROLLING
MORE
THAN
YEARS
AFTER
GRADUATING
FROM
SECONDARY
SCHOOL.—Section 3(c)(2) of such Act (Public Law
106–98; 113 Stat. 1325) is amended by striking
subparagraph (C).
(b) PROHIBITING PARTICIPATION OF FOREIGN NA-
TIONALS.—Section 3(c)(2) of such Act (Public Law 106–
98; 113 Stat. 1325), as amended by subsection (a)(2), is
amended by inserting after subparagraph (B) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(C) meets the citizenship and immigra-
tion status requirements described in section
484(a)(5) of the Higher Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 1091(a)(5));’’.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The amendments made by this Act shall take effect
on the date of the enactment of this Act.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia
College Access Improvement Act of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. PUBLIC SCHOOL PROGRAM.
Section 3(c)(2) of the District of Columbia College Ac-
cess Act of 1999 is amended by striking subparagraphs (A)
through (C) and inserting the following:
‘‘(A)(i) for individuals who begin an under-
graduate course of study within 3 calendar years
(excluding any period of service on active duty
in the armed forces, or service under the Peace
Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.) or subtitle D
of title I of the National and Community Service
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12571 et seq.)) of gradua-
tion from a secondary school, or obtaining the
recognized equivalent of a secondary school di-
ploma, was domiciled in the District of Colum-
bia for not less than the 12 consecutive months
preceding the commencement of the freshman
year at an institution of higher education; or
‘‘(ii) for all other individuals and for those
applicants re-enrolling after more than a 3–year
break in their post-secondary education, has been
domiciled in the District of Columbia for at least
5 consecutive years at the date of application;
‘‘(B)(i) graduated from a secondary school
or received the recognized equivalent of a sec-
ondary school diploma on or after January 1,
1998;
‘‘(ii) for applicants that did not graduate
from a secondary school or receive a recognized
equivalent of a secondary school diploma, is ac-
cepted for enrollment as a freshman at an eligi-
ble institution on or after January 1, 2002; or
‘‘(iii) for applicants who graduated from a
secondary school or received the recognized equiv-
alent of a secondary school diploma before Janu-
ary 1, 1998, is currently enrolled at an eligible
institution as of the date of enactment of the
District of Columbia College Access Improvement
Act of 2001;
‘‘(C) meets the citizenship and immigration
status 
requirements 
described 
in 
section
484(a)(5) of the Higher Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 1091(a)(5));’’.
SEC. 3. PRIVATE SCHOOL PROGRAM.
Section 5(c)(1)(B) of the District of Columbia College
Access Act of 1999 is amended by striking ‘‘The main cam-
pus of which is located in the State of Maryland or the
Commonwealth of Virginia’’.
SEC. 4. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.
Section 6 of the District of Columbia College Access
Act of 1999 is amended—
(1) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the
following:
‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Mayor of the District of
Columbia may not use more than 7 percent of the
total amount of Federal funds appropriated for the
program, retroactive to the date of enactment of this
Act (the District of Columbia College Access Act of
1999), for the administrative expenses of the program.
‘‘(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term
‘administrative expenses’ means any expenses that are
not directly used to pay the cost of tuition and fees
for eligible students to attend eligible institutions.’’;
(2) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as
subsections (f) and (g);
(3) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(e) LOCAL FUNDS.—It is the sense of Congress that
the District of Columbia may appropriate such local funds
as necessary for the Program.’’; and
(4) by inserting at the end the following:
‘‘(h) DEDICATED ACCOUNT FOR THE RESIDENT TUI-
TION SUPPORT PROGRAM.—The District of Columbia gov-
ernment shall establish a dedicated account for the Resident
Tuition Support Program that shall consist of the Federal
funds appropriated to the Program in this Act and any
subsequent appropriations, any unobligated balances from
prior fiscal years, and any interest earned in this or any
fiscal years. The funds in this dedicated account may be
used to help pay the cost of tuition and fees for eligible stu-
dents to attend eligible institutions if the fiscal year appro-
priation for that year is insufficient to cover the cost of
tuition and fees for that year.’’.
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘An Act to amend the
District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 to permit
individuals who enroll in an institution of higher education
more than 3 years after graduating from a secondary
school and individuals who attend private historically
black colleges and universities nationwide to participate in
the tuition assistance programs under such Act, and for
other purposes.’’.
Calendar No. 244
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1499
[Report No. 107–101]
AN ACT
To amend the District of Columbia College Access
Act of 1999 to permit individuals who graduated
from a secondary school prior to 1998 and indi-
viduals who enroll in an institution of higher edu-
cation more than 3 years after graduating from
a secondary school to participate in the tuition
assistance programs under such Act, and for
other purposes.
NOVEMBER 29, 2001
Reported with an amendment and an amendment to the
title