I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1828 
To establish a national teaching fellowship program to encourage individuals 
to enter and remain in the field of teaching at public schools. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 29, 2007 
Mr. PRICE of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. ETHERIDGE, Ms. CORRINE 
BROWN of Florida, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. MILLER of North Carolina, Mr. 
MCINTYRE, Mr. KLEIN of Florida, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. NADLER, Mr. 
WALZ of Minnesota, Mr. COHEN, Mr. WATT, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. SCOTT 
of Georgia, and Mr. SHULER) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To establish a national teaching fellowship program to en-
courage individuals to enter and remain in the field 
of teaching at public schools. 
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 ‘‘Teaching Fellows Act 
of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
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(1) The United States faces an increasing need 
for high-quality educators. 
(2) Up to 1,000,000 of the country’s 3,000,000 
teachers will retire in the next 5 years. Schools in 
the United States will have to hire 2,200,000 teach-
ers by 2010. 
(3) The Congress desires to inspire promising 
high school seniors and accomplished persons cur-
rently involved in the field of education to become 
certified teachers. 
(4) The opportunity created by a fellowship 
program would allow persons in the field of edu-
cation the financial opportunity to obtain a quality 
education which they would use to teach America’s 
youth. 
(5) The Congress desires to motivate those who 
go into the field of teaching to become career edu-
cators. 
(6) Many paraprofessionals have received their 
training at community colleges and have the poten-
tial and desire to obtain degrees in education and 
certification as teachers. 
(7) Rural and inner-city communities could 
greatly benefit from encouraging those in the com-
munity who already have an interest in teaching to 
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pursue a degree in education and become career 
educators. 
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM. 
Title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1021 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating Part B as Part C; and 
(2) by inserting after Part A the following new 
part: 
‘‘PART B—TEACHING AND PARTNERSHIP 
FELLOWS 
‘‘SEC. 211. STATE TEACHING FELLOWS PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to en-
courage promising high school seniors and undergraduate 
students to enter the field of teaching and become career 
educators. 
‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE TEACHING FEL-
LOWS PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) USE
OF
FUNDS
FOR
SCHOLARSHIPS.— 
From the funds appropriated under subsection (h), 
the Secretary shall make grants available to States 
for the purpose of establishing State Teaching Fel-
lows Programs to provide scholarships for Teaching 
Fellows. Such scholarships shall be used to pay for 
tuition, fees, and other costs of attendance at insti-
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tutions of higher education incurred by such Teach-
ing Fellows. 
‘‘(2) SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNTS.—Scholarships to 
Teaching Fellows made available under this section 
shall be no less than $6,500 per year— 
‘‘(A) for each of 4 years of undergraduate 
education, in the case of a Teaching Fellow 
who, at the time of application, was a high 
school senior; 
‘‘(B) for the third and fourth year of un-
dergraduate education, in the case of a Teach-
ing Fellow who, at the time of application, was 
in the second year of undergraduate education; 
and 
‘‘(C) for a fifth year of undergraduate edu-
cation, in the case of a Teaching Fellow de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) or (B), if such 
year is required in order to obtain a bachelor’s 
degree with a State license or certificate to 
teach. 
‘‘(3) SELECTION OF FELLOWS.—Teaching Fel-
lows shall be selected from individuals who— 
‘‘(A) at the time of application, are high 
school seniors or are in the second academic 
year of a program of undergraduate education 
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at a two- or four-year degree-granting institu-
tion of higher education; 
‘‘(B) are United States citizens or aliens 
lawfully residing in the United States (other 
than as a nonimmigrant); 
‘‘(C) are residents of the State sponsoring 
the State Teaching Fellows Program to which 
they are applying; 
‘‘(D) meet the criteria established under 
subsection (c)(2)(C); and 
‘‘(E) enter into a written agreement with 
the State agency to fulfill the service require-
ment under subsection (e) in exchange for re-
ceipt of the scholarship made available under 
this section. 
‘‘(c) COMPETITION FOR FEDERAL FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) ADMINISTRATION OF STATE PROGRAM.— 
The governor (or chief executive officer) of each 
State desiring to participate in the State Teaching 
Fellows Program shall designate a single State agen-
cy to administer the State Teaching Fellows Pro-
gram. Such State agency shall have a full-time staff 
and may be a division of the State’s education de-
partment, a coordinating or governing board of high-
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er education, an independent government agency, or 
a non-profit organization. 
‘‘(2) APPLICATION.—A State agency designated 
under paragraph (1) shall submit an application to 
the Secretary at such time, in such a manner, and 
containing such information, as the Secretary may 
require. Such application shall— 
‘‘(A) identify the private and public insti-
tutions of higher education within the State 
that will participate in the State Teaching Fel-
lows Program; 
‘‘(B) describe any step the State agency 
will take to encourage the involvement of His-
panic Serving Institutions and Historically 
Black Colleges and Universities in such pro-
gram; 
‘‘(C) describe the specific, rigorous criteria 
to be used in selecting Teaching Fellows; 
‘‘(D) describe the procedures the State 
agency will use for the distribution of scholar-
ships and administration of service obligation 
oversight; 
‘‘(E) provide assurances that each partici-
pating institution will be required to provide a 
full-time faculty member or administrator to 
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serve as the State Teaching Fellows Program 
director at that institution, and to work closely 
with the State agency to administer the campus 
program and to create and execute the manda-
tory extracurricular enrichment programs and 
activities required by subparagraph (F); and 
‘‘(F) 
describe 
the 
mandatory 
extra-
curricular enrichment programs and activities 
that will be part of such program that— 
‘‘(i) are designed to motivate Teach-
ing Fellows to become career educators; 
‘‘(ii) provide Teaching Fellows with a 
multidisciplinary education; 
‘‘(iii) are offered regularly during each 
year of schooling (including during inter-
vals between periods of enrollment); and 
‘‘(iv) expose Teaching Fellows to the 
business, political, demographic, cultural, 
and economic climates of the State, and 
help Teaching Fellows develop leadership 
qualities. 
‘‘(3) COMPETITIVE SELECTION.—From the ap-
plications submitted by State agencies designated 
under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall approve 
those applications that the Secretary determines to 
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be the most promising in carrying out the purposes 
of the State Teaching Fellows Program. Each such 
State agency whose application is selected by the 
Secretary to participate in the State Teaching Fel-
lows Program shall receive funds to offer scholar-
ships under this section. The Secretary shall deter-
mine the amount of funds to award to each such 
State agency based on the amount of the total ap-
propriation for the State Teaching Fellows Program, 
the relative size of the State’s student population, 
and the cost of administering a viable State Teach-
ing Fellows Program, as estimated by the Secretary. 
‘‘(d) REQUIREMENTS FOR STATE RECEIPT OF FED-
ERAL FUNDS.—Each State participating in the State 
Teaching Fellows Program shall provide assurances 
that— 
‘‘(1) the State agency and participating institu-
tions shall, collectively, match the Federal funds pro-
vided under this section by providing at least 25 per-
cent of the total cost of the State Teaching Fellows 
Program; and 
‘‘(2) funds received under this section will only 
be used to supplement the amount of funds that 
would, in the absence of such Federal funds, be 
made available from non-Federal sources for the 
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purposes of this section, and not to supplant such 
funds. 
‘‘(e) SERVICE REQUIREMENT FOR TEACHING FEL-
LOWS.—Each individual selected as a Teaching Fellow 
and receiving scholarship assistance under this section 
shall, within 7 years after graduation— 
‘‘(1) teach for 4 qualifying years at one or more 
public schools within the State that awarded such 
scholarship; or 
‘‘(2) teach for 3 consecutive qualifying years 
(unless the recipient takes leave of absence, ap-
proved by the State agency on a case-by-case basis), 
at one or more public schools within such State that, 
at the time the recipient accepts employment, the 
local educational agency in which such school is lo-
cated has identified for school improvement under 
section 1116(b) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965. 
‘‘(f) FAILURE TO MEET SERVICE REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(1) OBLIGATION TO REPAY.—The State agen-
cy administering the State Teaching Fellows Pro-
gram shall require that any Teaching Fellow who 
fails to meet the service requirement under sub-
section (e) shall repay a pro rata amount, as deter-
mined by such State agency, of the scholarship re-
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ceived from the State Teaching Fellows Program, 
and to pay interest on such pro rata amount at an 
annual rate of 10 percent until such pro rata 
amount is repaid. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—Paragraph (1) shall not 
apply if the State agency finds that it is impossible 
for the Teaching Fellow to meet the service require-
ment under subsection (e) because of the death or 
permanent disability of the recipient. 
‘‘(3) REVOLVING FUNDING.—Any funds repaid 
by a Teaching Fellow pursuant to paragraph (1), to-
gether with any interest thereon, may be retained by 
the State agency for making available additional 
scholarships under this section, and for paying costs 
related to the disbursement of awards under this 
section, and the collection of payments under para-
graph (1). 
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 
‘‘(1) QUALIFIED
YEAR.—The term ‘qualified 
year’, with respect to the service required of a 
Teaching Fellow under subsection (e), means an 
academic year during which the Teaching Fellow 
teaches a minimum of six full calendar months with-
in such academic year. 
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‘‘(2) STATE.—The term ‘State’ includes the 
several States, the District of Columbia, and the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 
‘‘(3) STATE AGENCY.—The term ‘State agency’ 
means the agency designated pursuant to subsection 
(c)(1). 
‘‘(4) TEACHING FELLOWS.—The term ‘Teach-
ing Fellow’ means an individual selected for an 
award of financial assistance under this section. 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$200,000,000 for fiscal year 2008, and such sums as may 
be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years. 
‘‘SEC. 212. PARTNERSHIP FELLOWS PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are— 
‘‘(1) to encourage members of the education 
community, such as education-related paraprofes-
sionals and other school employees who are not yet 
certified teachers, to obtain a bachelor’s degree with 
a State license or certificate to teach; and 
‘‘(2) to encourage partnerships between associ-
ate’s degree-granting institutions and bachelor’s de-
gree-granting institutions to reduce and remove com-
mon barriers that prevent many individuals de-
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scribed in paragraph (1) from completing such a de-
gree. 
‘‘(b) GRANTS FOR STATE PARTNERSHIP FELLOWS 
PROGRAMS.— 
‘‘(1) USE OF FUNDS.—From the funds appro-
priated under subsection (f), the Secretary shall 
make grants available to States for the purpose of 
establishing State Partnership Fellows Programs 
to— 
‘‘(A) support the creation and maintenance 
of eligible partnerships; and 
‘‘(B) provide funds to eligible partnerships 
to award scholarships to Partnership Fellows, 
which shall be used to pay for tuition, fees, and 
other costs of attendance incurred by Partner-
ship Fellows at institutions of higher education 
that are members of such eligible partnerships. 
‘‘(2) STATE
AGENCY
TO
ADMINISTER
PRO-
GRAM.—The governor (or chief executive officer) of 
each State desiring to receive a grant under this sec-
tion shall designate a single State agency to admin-
ister the State Partnership Fellows Program. Such 
State agency shall have a full-time staff and may be 
a division of the State’s education department, a co-
ordinating or governing board of higher education, 
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an independent government agency, or a non-profit 
organization. 
‘‘(3) APPLICATION.—A State agency designated 
under paragraph (2) shall submit an application to 
the Secretary at such time, in such a manner, and 
containing such information, as the Secretary may 
require. Such application shall— 
‘‘(A) describe— 
‘‘(i) the process by which the State 
agency solicited proposals from eligible 
partnerships within the State for participa-
tion in the State Partnership Fellows Pro-
gram; 
‘‘(ii) any criteria used, in addition to 
the criteria described in subsection (c), to 
select from such proposals eligible partner-
ships to participate in the State Partner-
ship Fellows Program; and 
‘‘(iii) any steps taken by the State 
agency to include the involvement of His-
panic Serving Institutions and Historically 
Black Colleges and Universities in the 
State Partnership Fellows Program; 
‘‘(B) provide a list of the eligible partner-
ships that have been selected for participation 
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in the State Partnership Fellows Program, 
which shall include the names of the institu-
tions of higher education that comprise the 
members of each such eligible partnership, and 
the proposals submitted by each such eligible 
partnership; 
‘‘(C) provide a detailed description of how 
the funds provided through such grant shall be 
allocated among eligible partnerships within the 
State; and 
‘‘(D) provide assurances that— 
‘‘(i) not less than 25 percent of the 
total cost of the State Partnership Fellows 
Program shall be from non-Federal funds; 
‘‘(ii) the funds received under this sec-
tion shall only be used to supplement the 
amount of funds that would, in the absence 
of such Federal funds, be made available 
from non-Federal sources for the purposes 
of this section, and not to supplant such 
funds; and 
‘‘(iii) not more than 20 percent of the 
funds received under this section shall be 
used for administrative costs to carry out 
the State Partnership Fellows Program, 
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including funds made available to eligible 
partnerships to— 
‘‘(I) support the creation and 
maintenance of such partnerships; 
‘‘(II) sponsor the mandatory ex-
tracurricular 
enrichment 
programs 
and activities for Partnership Fellows, 
as required by subsection (c)(3); and 
‘‘(III) collect payments under 
subsection (d)(4)(A). 
‘‘(4) COMPETITIVE SELECTION.—From applica-
tions submitted by State agencies for State Partner-
ship Fellows Program grants, the Secretary shall 
award grants to those State agencies that the Sec-
retary determines, based on such applications, to be 
the most promising in carrying out the purposes of 
this section. 
‘‘(c) CRITERIA
FOR PROPOSALS FROM ELIGIBLE 
PARTNERSHIPS.—To be eligible to receive a grant under 
this section, a State agency shall require each eligible part-
nership selected for participation in the State Partnership 
Fellows Program to have submitted a proposal that— 
‘‘(1) identifies the specific, rigorous criteria to 
be used by the eligible partnership to select Partner-
ship Fellows, including outstanding service to school- 
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age children, a firm commitment to the field of edu-
cation, and aptitude to succeed as a teacher; 
‘‘(2) designates a full-time faculty member or 
administrator to serve as Partnership Fellows Pro-
gram director or coordinator for the eligible partner-
ship, who will work closely with the State agency to 
administer the program and to create and execute 
the mandatory extracurricular enrichment programs 
and activities required by paragraph (3); 
‘‘(3) describes the mandatory extracurricular 
enrichment programs and activities that will be part 
of such program that— 
‘‘(A) are designed to motivate Partnership 
Fellows to become career educators; 
‘‘(B) provide Partnership Fellows with a 
multidisciplinary education; 
‘‘(C) are offered regularly during each year 
of schooling (including during intervals between 
periods of enrollment); and 
‘‘(D) expose Partnership Fellows to the 
business, political, demographic, cultural, and 
economic climates of the State, and help the 
Partnership Fellows develop leadership quali-
ties; 
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‘‘(4) specifically describes how the eligible part-
nership will provide Partnership Fellows in rural or 
underserved communities access to the curriculum 
and mandatory extracurricular enrichment programs 
and activities created by the eligible partnership; 
‘‘(5) describes how the program will accommo-
date Partnership Fellows who maintain employment 
while pursuing a degree, including any available dis-
tance learning methods, evening and weekend pro-
grams, minimum credit requirements, or other pro-
grams; 
‘‘(6) describes the circumstances in which, and 
the amount with which, the eligible partnership will 
assist Partnership Fellows during the period of stu-
dent teaching, in accordance with subsection 
(d)(2)(C), should they be financially unable (as de-
termined by the State agency) to complete such pe-
riod of student teaching; 
‘‘(7) provides an itemized account of how the el-
igible partnership plans to use the funds received 
under this section; and 
‘‘(8) provides assurances that scholarships to 
Partnership Fellows will be administered in accord-
ance with the requirements of subsection (d). 
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‘‘(d) PARTNERSHIP FELLOWS SCHOLARSHIP ADMIN-
ISTRATION.— 
‘‘(1) SELECTION
OF
FELLOWS.—Partnership 
Fellows shall be selected by an eligible partnership 
from individuals who— 
‘‘(A) are United States citizens or aliens 
lawfully residing in the United States (other 
than as a nonimmigrant); 
‘‘(B) are residents of the State sponsoring 
the Partnership Fellows Program to which they 
are applying; 
‘‘(C) are— 
‘‘(i) 
education-related 
paraprofes-
sionals, as such term is defined by the 
State agency of such State; or 
‘‘(ii) enrolled in an associate’s degree- 
granting institution; 
‘‘(D) meet the criteria established by the 
eligible partnership under subsection (c)(1); and 
‘‘(E) enter into a written agreement with 
the eligible partnership to fulfill the service re-
quirement under paragraph (3) in exchange for 
receipt of the scholarship made available under 
this section. 
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‘‘(2) SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNTS.—Scholarships to 
Partnership Fellows made available under this sec-
tion— 
‘‘(A) in the case of a Partnership Fellow 
attending an institution of higher education on 
a full-time basis, as defined by the eligible part-
nership, shall be— 
‘‘(i) not less than $6,500 per year; 
and 
‘‘(ii) available for each year of under-
graduate education required to obtain a 
bachelor’s degree with a State license or 
certificate to teach that the Partnership 
Fellow begins after being selected as a 
Partnership Fellow, which may include a 
fifth year of undergraduate education if a 
fifth year is required to obtain a bachelor’s 
degree with a State license or certificate to 
teach; 
‘‘(B) in the case of a Partnership Fellow 
attending an institution of higher education on 
less than a full-time basis, as defined by the eli-
gible partnership, shall be— 
‘‘(i) the amount under subparagraph 
(A)(i), reduced in proportion to the degree 
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to which that student is not so attending 
on a full-time basis; and 
‘‘(ii) available for a period not to ex-
ceed six years; and 
‘‘(C) in the case of a Partnership Fellow 
described in subparagraph (A) or (B), may be 
awarded during the period of student teaching, 
as permitted under subsection (c)(6). 
‘‘(3) SERVICE
REQUIREMENT
FOR
PARTNER-
SHIP
FELLOWS.—Each Partnership Fellow shall, 
within 7 years after graduating with a bachelor’s de-
gree with a State license or certificate to teach— 
‘‘(A) teach for 4 qualifying years at one or 
more public schools within the State in which 
the eligible partnership that selected the Part-
nership Fellow is located; or 
‘‘(B) teach for 3 consecutive qualifying 
years (unless the recipient takes leave of ab-
sence, approved by the State agency on a case- 
by-case basis), at one or more public schools 
within such State that, at the time the recipient 
accepts employment, the local educational agen-
cy in which such school is located has identified 
for school improvement under section 1116(b) 
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of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965. 
‘‘(4) FAILURE
TO
MEET
SERVICE
REQUIRE-
MENT.— 
‘‘(A) OBLIGATION TO REPAY.—Any Part-
nership Fellow who fails to meet the service re-
quirement under paragraph (3) shall repay to 
the eligible partnership that selected the Part-
nership Fellow, a pro rata amount, as deter-
mined by the State agency administering the 
State Partnership Fellows Program, of the 
scholarship received from the Partnership Fel-
lows Program, and to pay interest on such pro 
rata amount at an annual rate of 10 percent 
until such pro rata amount is repaid. 
‘‘(B) 
EXCEPTION.—Subparagraph 
(A) 
shall not apply if the State agency finds that it 
is impossible for the Partnership Fellow to meet 
the service requirement under paragraph (3) 
because of the death or permanent disability of 
the Partnership Fellow. 
‘‘(C) REVOLVING
FUNDING.—Any funds 
repaid by a Partnership Fellow pursuant to 
subparagraph (A), together with any interest 
thereon, shall be transferred by the eligible 
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partnership to the State agency, and may be re-
tained by the State agency for making available 
additional scholarships under this section, and 
for administrative costs related to the disburse-
ment of such scholarships. 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 
‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE PARTNERSHIP.—The term ‘eligi-
ble partnership’ means a partnership agreement be-
tween at least one associate’s degree-granting insti-
tution and at least one bachelor’s degree-granting 
institution in which all members of the partnership 
agree to— 
‘‘(A) establish significantly similar cur-
ricula and degree requirements for individuals 
pursuing a bachelor’s degree with a State li-
cense or certification to teach; 
‘‘(B) ensure that credit earned by an indi-
vidual at any institution that is a member of 
the eligible partnership is acceptable for full 
credit toward such a bachelor’s degree at any 
other member institution of the same eligible 
partnership that offers such bachelor’s degrees; 
and 
‘‘(C) jointly sponsor the mandatory extra-
curricular enrichment programs and activities 
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required for Partnership Fellows under sub-
section (c)(3). 
‘‘(2) PARTNERSHIP FELLOW.—The term ‘Part-
nership Fellow’ means an individual selected by an 
eligible partnership for a scholarship award under 
this section. 
‘‘(3) QUALIFYING YEAR.—The term ‘qualifying 
year’, with respect to the service required of a Part-
nership Fellow under subsection (e), means an aca-
demic year during which the Partnership Fellow 
teaches a minimum of six full calendar months with-
in such academic year. 
‘‘(4) STATE.—The term ‘State’ includes the 
several States, the District of Columbia, and the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 
‘‘(5) STATE AGENCY.—The term ‘State agency’ 
means the agency designated pursuant to subsection 
(b)(2). 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$100,000,000 for fiscal year 2008, and such sums as may 
be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years.’’. 
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