Title: Esther Martinez Native American Languages Programs Reauthorization Act
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Esther Martinez Native American Languages Programs Reauthorization Act
This bill revises a grant program administered by the Administration for Native Americans at the Department of Health and Human Services to preserve Native American languages. The minimum number of enrollees in educational programs funded by grants is reduced from 10 to 5 enrollees in Native American language nests, which provide instruction through the use of a Native American language for children under the age of 7 and their parents. For survival schools, which are programs striving for fluency in a Native American language and proficiency in other academic fields, the minimum number of enrollees is reduced from 15 to 10. The bill increases the maximum duration of grants.
The program is reauthorized through FY2024.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 256 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 256

     To amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to provide 
 flexibility and reauthorization to ensure the survival and continuing 
                 vitality of Native American languages.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 29, 2019

 Mr. Udall (for himself, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Heinrich, Ms. 
  Warren, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Smith, and Mr. Tester) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             Indian Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to provide 
 flexibility and reauthorization to ensure the survival and continuing 
                 vitality of Native American languages.

    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 ``Esther Martinez Native American 
Languages Programs Reauthorization Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES GRANT PROGRAM.

    Section 803C of the Native American Programs Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 
2991b-3) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(7)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking ``10'' and 
                inserting ``5''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking ``15'' and 
                inserting ``10''; and
            (2) in subsection (e)(2)--
                    (A) by striking ``or 3-year basis'' and inserting 
                ``3-year, 4-year, or 5-year basis''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``, 4-year, or 5-year'' after ``on 
                a 3-year''.

SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Section 816(e) of the Native American Programs Act 
of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 2992d(e)) is amended by striking ``such sums'' and 
all that follows through the period at the end and inserting 
``$13,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2024.''.
    (b) Technical Correction.--Section 816 of the Native American 
Programs Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 2992d) is amended in subsections (a) 
and (b) by striking ``subsection (e)'' each place it appears and 
inserting ``subsection (d)''.
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