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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5139 
To direct the Secretary of Education to establish and maintain a public 
website through which individuals may find a complete database of avail-
able scholarships, fellowships, and other programs of financial assistance 
in the study of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 6, 2006 
Mr. HOLT (for himself, Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of 
California, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Ms. LEE, Mr. SMITH of Wash-
ington, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. OWENS, Mr. KENNEDY of Minnesota, Mr. 
EMANUEL, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. CAPUANO, 
Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. WOLF, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, and Mr. INSLEE) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Education to establish and main-
tain a public website through which individuals may find 
a complete database of available scholarships, fellowships, 
and other programs of financial assistance in the study 
of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. 
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 ‘‘STEM Scholarship 
Database Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. NATIONAL DATABASE ON FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 
FOR STUDY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, EN-
GINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF DATA-
BASE.— 
(1) DATABASE.—The Secretary of Education 
shall establish and maintain, on the public website 
of the Department of Education, a database con-
sisting of information on all scholarships, fellow-
ships, and other programs of financial assistance 
available from all public and private sources for the 
study of science, technology, engineering, or mathe-
matics at the post-secondary and post-baccalaureate 
levels. 
(2) PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION.—The in-
formation maintained on the database established 
under this section shall be displayed on the website 
in the following manner: 
(A) Separate information shall be provided 
for each of the fields of study referred to in 
paragraph (1) and for post-secondary and post- 
baccalaureate programs of financial assistance. 
(B) The database shall provide specific in-
formation on any programs of financial assist-
ance which are targeted to individuals of a par-
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ticular gender, ethnicity, or other demographic 
group. 
(C) If the sponsor of any program of fi-
nancial assistance included on the database 
maintains a public website, the database shall 
provide hyperlinks to the website. 
(D) In addition to providing the hyperlink 
to the website of a sponsor of a program of fi-
nancial assistance as required under subpara-
graph (C), the database shall provide general 
information that an interested person may use 
to contact the sponsor, including the sponsor’s 
electronic mail address. 
(E) The database shall have a search capa-
bility which permits an individual to search for 
information on the basis of each category of the 
information provided and on the basis of com-
binations of categories of the information pro-
vided. 
(b) DISSEMINATION
OF INFORMATION
ON DATA-
BASE.—The Secretary shall take such actions as may be 
necessary on an ongoing basis, including sending notices 
to secondary schools and institutions of higher education, 
to disseminate information on the database established 
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and maintained under this Act and to encourage its use 
by interested parties. 
(c) USE OF VENDOR TO OBTAIN INFORMATION.—In 
carrying out this Act, the Secretary of Education shall 
enter into a contract with a private entity under which 
the entity shall furnish and regularly update all of the in-
formation required to be maintained on the database es-
tablished under this section. 
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this Act such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 
2007 through 2011. 
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