Title: Indigenous STEM Professional Development Act
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Indigenous STEM Professional Development Act
This bill expands the grant program for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs that benefit Native American students. Under current law, this program only applies to programs that benefit Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. The bill expands grant eligibility to include programs that benefit American Indians and other Native American Pacific Islanders.
Additionally, the bill authorizes grants under the program for the creation of new programs for the development of Native American STEM professionals.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4222 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4222

To amend the STEM education program for American Indian, Alaska Native, 
  and Native Hawaiian students under the Higher Education Act of 1965.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 30, 2019

 Mr. Sablan (for himself and Mr. Case) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the STEM education program for American Indian, Alaska Native, 
  and Native Hawaiian students under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

    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 ``Indigenous STEM Professional 
Development Act''.

SEC. 2. IMPROVING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS 
              EDUCATION WITH A FOCUS ON AMERICAN INDIAN, ALASKA NATIVE, 
              AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN STUDENTS.

    Section 819 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1161j) 
is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``alaska native and 
        native hawaiian'' and inserting ``native american'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``Alaska Natives and 
        Native Hawaiians'' and inserting ``American Indians, Alaska 
        Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Native American Pacific 
        Islanders to enable them to succeed in these fields'';
            (3) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and 
                (4), as paragraphs (2), (4), (5), and (6), 
                respectively;
                    (B) by inserting before paragraph (2), as 
                redesignated by subparagraph (A), the following:
            ``(1) Native american.--The term `Native American' includes 
        Alaska Natives, American Indians, Native Hawaiians and Native 
        American Pacific Islanders.''; and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (2), as 
                redesignated by subparagraph (A), the following:
            ``(3) American indian.--The term `American Indian' has the 
        meaning given the term `Indian' in section 202 of the Indian 
        Land Consolidation Act (25 U.S.C. 2201).'';
            (4) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by inserting ``create or'' after ``to enable 
                the eligible partnership to'';
                    (B) by inserting ``Native American'' after ``the 
                development of''; and
                    (C) by striking ``, including existing programs for 
                Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students'';
            (5) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Alaska Native 
                or Native Hawaiian students'' and inserting ``programs 
                that serve Native American students'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``Alaska Native 
                and Native Hawaiian students'' and inserting ``programs 
                that serve Native American students''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (3), by striking ``Alaska Native 
                or Native Hawaiian students'' and inserting ``Native 
                American students'';
            (6) in subsection (f), by striking ``30 percent or more of 
        the program participants are Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian'' 
        and inserting ``30 percent or more of the program participants 
        are Native American''; and
            (7) in subsection (i), by striking ``to carry out this 
        section such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009 and 
        each of the five succeeding fiscal years'' and inserting 
        ``$5,000,000 for fiscal year 2020 and each of the 5 succeeding 
        fiscal years''.
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