I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4386 
To establish a grant program that encourages States to establish subgrant 
programs that encourage recipients to create, maintain, and improve 
digital fabrication laboratories, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 14, 2017 
Mr. DUFFY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To establish a grant program that encourages States to 
establish subgrant programs that encourage recipients 
to create, maintain, and improve digital fabrication lab-
oratories, 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 ‘‘Fab Lab Classroom 
Modernization Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—From the amounts made available 
pursuant to section 9 for any fiscal year, the Secretary 
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shall award a grant to each State with an approved appli-
cation under section 3. 
(b) GRANT FREQUENCY.—The Secretary may not 
award more than 1 grant under this Act to a State for 
a fiscal year. 
(c) AWARD AMOUNT LIMIT.—No grant awarded 
under this Act may exceed $200,000. 
SEC. 3. APPLICATION. 
Each State desiring a grant under this Act shall sub-
mit an application to the Secretary at such time and in 
such manner as the Secretary may require that shall in-
clude— 
(1) a description of the State’s proposed or ex-
isting competitive subgrant program; 
(2) a description of how the State’s program 
will comply or does comply with the requirements set 
forth in section 4; and 
(3) any other information the Secretary may re-
quire. 
SEC. 4. USE OF FUNDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each State that receives a grant 
under this Act shall use the funds to— 
(1) establish a program that complies with the 
requirements set forth in this section under which 
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the State awards, on a competitive basis, subgrants 
to eligible entities; or 
(2) expand an existing competitive subgrant 
program that complies with such requirements. 
(b) LIMITATION; PRIORITY.— 
(1) LIMITATION.—A State that receives a grant 
under this Act may not use any of such grant to pay 
any administrative costs associated with carrying out 
subsection (a). 
(2) PRIORITY.—In awarding subgrants under 
this section, a State shall use not less than 15 per-
cent of the grant received under this Act to award 
such subgrants to eligible entities in rural areas, ex-
cept that a State may apply to the Secretary for a 
waiver of the requirement under this paragraph. 
(c) SUBGRANT FREQUENCY.—A State may not award 
more than 1 subgrant under this section to an eligible en-
tity for a fiscal year. 
(d) SUBGRANT AMOUNT LIMITS.—A subgrant may 
not be awarded under this section in an amount greater 
than— 
(1) in the case of an eligible entity described in 
section 10(1)(A), $25,000; or 
(2) in the case of an eligible entity described in 
section 10(1)(B), $50,000. 
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(e) USE OF SUBGRANT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—An eligible entity that re-
ceives a subgrant under this section shall use the 
subgrant for the purposes of— 
(A) purchasing equipment for use in a dig-
ital fabrication laboratory; or 
(B) providing professional development 
that relates to the incorporation of the digital 
fabrication laboratory into curriculum instruc-
tion. 
(2) LIMITATION.—An eligible entity that re-
ceives a subgrant under this section may not use any 
of such subgrant to pay any administrative costs as-
sociated with carrying out paragraph (1). 
(f) APPLICATION.—An eligible entity that desires a 
subgrant under this section shall, at such time and in such 
manner as the State that awards the subgrant may re-
quire, submit an application to such State that includes— 
(1) an assurance that the eligible entity will 
adopt a policy that any digital fabrication laboratory 
equipped using subgrant funds shall be used pre-
dominantly for instructional and educational pur-
poses by students enrolled in one of the eligible enti-
ty’s elementary or secondary schools; and 
(2) a description of— 
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