Title: STEM Educator Awards Equity Act
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
STEM Educator Awards Equity Act
This bill increases from 108 to 110 the number of Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching the President must award each year. The awards are given to kindergarten through grade 12 school teachers of mathematics and science who have demonstrated outstanding teaching ability.
In selecting teachers for an award, the President shall select at least one teacher each from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8055 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8055

 To amend the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 1988 to 
 direct the award of Presidential awards for excellence in teaching of 
mathematics and science to more teachers from the territories, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 14, 2020

     Mr. Sablan (for himself, Mrs. Radewagen, and Mr. San Nicolas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                     Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 1988 to 
 direct the award of Presidential awards for excellence in teaching of 
mathematics and science to more teachers from the territories, 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 ``STEM Educator Awards Equity Act''.

SEC. 2. PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE 
              TEACHING.

    (a) In General.--Section 117(a) of the National Science Foundation 
Authorization Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 1881b(a)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) by striking ``108'' and inserting ``110'';
                    (B) by striking clause (iv);
                    (C) in clause (v), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; and'';
                    (D) by redesignating clauses (i), (ii), (iii), and 
                (v) as subclauses (I), (II), (III), and (IV), 
                respectively, and moving the margins of such subclauses 
                (as so redesignated) two ems to the right; and
                    (E) by striking ``In selecting teachers'' and all 
                that follows through ``two teachers--'' and inserting 
                the following:
                    ``(C) In selecting teachers for an award authorized 
                by this subsection, the President shall select--
                            ``(i) at least two teachers--''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (C), as designated by paragraph (1)(D), 
        by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(ii) at least one teacher--
                                    ``(I) from the Commonwealth of the 
                                Northern Mariana Islands;
                                    ``(II) from American Samoa;
                                    ``(III) from the Virgin Islands of 
                                the United States; and
                                    ``(IV) from Guam.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to awards made on or after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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