Title: OPPORTUNITY Act of 2018
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Offering Promising Persons Occupations Relevant To Upholding National Interests For Years Act of 2018 or the OPPORTUNITY Act of 2018
This bill revises the Cyber Scholarship Program of the Department of Defense (DOD). In awarding grants and scholarships under the program, DOD must give special consideration to minority-serving institutions of higher education (IHEs) and the students who attend such IHEs.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5746 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5746

To amend the Cyber Scholarship Program of the Department of Defense to 
  require additional considerations in the award of scholarships and 
                       grants under the Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2018

   Mr. Aguilar (for himself, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Correa, Mr. 
Veasey, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Ben 
Ray Lujan of New Mexico, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Brown 
   of Maryland, Mr. Lowenthal, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. 
Butterfield, Mr. Rush, and Mr. Carbajal) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Cyber Scholarship Program of the Department of Defense to 
  require additional considerations in the award of scholarships and 
                       grants under the Program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Offering Promising Persons 
Occupations Relevant To Upholding National Interests For Years Act of 
2018'' or the ``OPPORTUNITY Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CYBER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIPS 
              AND GRANTS.

    (a) Additional Considerations.--Section 2200c of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting before ``In the selection'' the following:
    ``(a) Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Education.--''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Certain Institutions of Higher Education.--In the selection 
of a recipient for the award of a scholarship or grant under this 
chapter, consideration shall be given to whether--
            ``(1) in the case of a scholarship, the institution of 
        higher education at which the recipient pursues a degree is an 
        institution described in section 371(a) of the Higher Education 
        Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1067q(a)); and
            ``(2) in the case of a grant, the recipient is an 
        institution described in such section.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendments.--
            (1) Section heading.--The heading of section 2200c of title 
        10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 2200c. Special considerations in awarding scholarships and 
              grants''.
            (2) Table of sections.--The table of sections at the 
        beginning of chapter 112 of title 10, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking the item relating to section 2200c and 
        inserting the following new item:

``2200c. Special considerations in awarding scholarships and grants.''.
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