Title: Diversify Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Diversifying by Investing in Educators and Students to Improve Outcomes For Youth Act or the Diversify Act
This bill increases the maximum grant award under the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program. The TEACH program awards grants to college students who plan to teach in low-income areas.
The bill also exempts the TEACH program from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5350 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5350

To remove college cost as a barrier to every student having access to a 
 well-prepared and diverse educator workforce, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 6, 2019

   Mr. Garcia of Illinois (for himself, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Takano, Mr. 
 Grijalva, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Cisneros, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. 
  Espaillat, Ms. Norton, Mr. Rush, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Bishop of 
  Georgia, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Kennedy, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Panetta, Mrs. 
Luria, Mr. Schiff, Ms. Haaland, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Ms. Adams, Mrs. 
Napolitano, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Courtney, Ms. Meng, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Judy 
Chu of California, and Mr. Cohen) introduced the following bill; which 
 was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition 
    to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To remove college cost as a barrier to every student having access to a 
 well-prepared and diverse educator workforce, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Diversifying by Investing in 
Educators and Students to Improve Outcomes For Youth Act'' or the 
``Diversify Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965.

    Section 420M of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070g-
1) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``$4,000'' and 
        inserting ``$8,000''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``$16,000'' 
                and inserting ``$32,000''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``$8,000'' and 
                inserting ``$16,000''.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENT TO THE BALANCED BUDGET AND DEFICIT CONTROL ACT.

    Section 255(h) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 255(h)) is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to ``Supplemental Security Income Program (28-0406-0-1-609).'' 
the following new item:
            ``TEACH Grants under Subpart 9, Part A, Title IV of the 
        Higher Education Act of 1965.''.
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