(A) Nonprofit scientific and professional 
societies and organizations that represent one 
or more STEM disciplines. 
(B) Nonprofit organizations that have the 
primary mission of advancing the participation 
of women, minorities, or other groups histori-
cally underrepresented in STEM. 
(6) CHARACTERISTICS
OF
WORKSHOPS.—The 
workshops shall have the following characteristics: 
(A) Invitees to workshops shall include at 
least— 
(i) the chairs of departments in the 
relevant STEM discipline or disciplines 
from at least the top 50 institutions of 
higher education, as determined by the 
amount of Federal research and develop-
ment funds obligated to each institution of 
higher education in the prior year based on 
data available from the National Science 
Foundation; and 
(ii) in the case of Federal laboratories, 
individuals with personnel management re-
sponsibilities comparable to those of an in-
stitution of higher education department 
chair. 
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(B) Activities at the workshops shall in-
clude research presentations and interactive dis-
cussions or other activities that increase the 
awareness of the existence of implicit bias in re-
cruitment, hiring, tenure review, promotion, and 
other forms of formal recognition of individual 
achievement for faculty and other federally 
funded STEM researchers and shall provide 
strategies to overcome such bias. 
(C) Research presentations and other 
workshop programs, as appropriate, shall in-
clude a discussion of the unique challenges 
faced by different underrepresented groups, in-
cluding minority women, minority men, persons 
from rural and underserved areas, persons with 
disabilities, and first generation graduates in 
research. 
(D) Workshop programs shall include in-
formation on best practices for mentoring un-
dergraduate and graduate women, minorities, 
and other students from groups historically 
underrepresented in STEM. 
(7) DATA ON WORKSHOPS.—Any proposal for 
funding by an organization seeking to carry out a 
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workshop under this subsection shall include a de-
scription of how such organization will— 
(A) collect data on the rates of attendance 
by invitees in workshops, including information 
on the home institution and department of 
attendees, and the rank of faculty attendees; 
(B) conduct attitudinal surveys on work-
shop attendees before and after the workshops; 
and 
(C) collect follow-up data on any relevant 
institutional policy or practice changes reported 
by attendees not later than one year after at-
tendance in such a workshop. 
(8) REPORT TO NSF.—Organizations receiving 
funding to carry out workshops under this sub-
section shall report the data required in paragraph 
(7) to the Director of the National Science Founda-
tion in such form as required by such Director. 
(c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 4 years 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of 
the National Science Foundation shall submit a report to 
Congress that includes— 
(1) a summary and analysis of the types and 
frequency of activities and policies developed and 
carried out under subsection (a) based on the re-
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ports submitted under paragraph (4) of such sub-
section; and 
(2) a description and evaluation of the status 
and effectiveness of the program of workshops re-
quired under subsection (c), including a summary of 
any data reported under paragraph (8) of such sub-
section. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Director of the 
National Science Foundation $1,000,000 in each of fiscal 
years 2020 through 2024 to carry out this section. 
SEC. 8. RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATION AT THE NATIONAL 
SCIENCE FOUNDATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the National 
Science Foundation shall award research grants and carry 
out dissemination activities consistent with the purposes 
of this Act, including— 
(1) research grants to analyze the record-level 
data collected under section 4 and section 6, con-
sistent with policies to ensure the privacy of individ-
uals identifiable by such data; 
(2) research grants to study best practices for 
work-life accommodation; 
(3) research grants to study the impact of poli-
cies and practices that are implemented under this 
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Act or that are otherwise consistent with the pur-
poses of this Act; 
(4) collaboration with other Federal science 
agencies and professional associations to exchange 
best practices, harmonize work-life accommodation 
policies and practices, and overcome common bar-
riers to work-life accommodation; 
(5) collaboration with institutions of higher 
education in order to clarify and catalyze the adop-
tion of a coherent and consistent set of work-life ac-
commodation policies and practices; and 
(6) research grants to study the use of stand-
ardized graduate student admission exams and its 
impact on the recruitment, retention, and success of 
women, underrepresented minorities, persons from 
rural areas, persons with disabilities, and first gen-
eration graduates in graduate STEM degree pro-
grams. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Director of the 
National Science Foundation $5,000,000 in each of fiscal 
years 2020 through 2024 to carry out this section. 
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