Title: Higher Education Sustainability Act of 2019
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Higher Education Sustainability Act of 2019
This bill reauthorizes through FY2020 and revises the University Sustainability program, which awards grants for designing and implementing sustainability practices on college campuses.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2928 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2928

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reauthorize the University 
                        Sustainability Program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 21, 2019

 Mr. Whitehouse (for himself, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Rosen, and Mr. Booker) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
          Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reauthorize the University 
                        Sustainability 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 ``Higher Education Sustainability Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM AMENDMENTS.

    Section 881 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1161u) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(1) In general.--From the amounts appropriated to carry 
        out this section, the Secretary, in consultation with the 
        Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall 
        make grants to eligible entities to establish sustainability 
        programs to design and implement the teaching and practice of 
        sustainability, including in the areas of staff and faculty 
        professional development, energy management, greenhouse gas 
        emissions reductions, green building, waste management, 
        transportation, resilience, green workforce, and other aspects 
        of sustainability that integrate the local community with 
        multidisciplinary academic programs and are applicable to the 
        private and government sectors.''; and
                    (B) by striking paragraph (3)(B) and inserting the 
                following:
                    ``(B) a nonprofit consortium, association, 
                alliance, or collaboration operating in partnership 
                with more than 1 institution of higher education.'';
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
                        (A), by inserting ``in alignment with local 
                        community needs'' after ``following purposes'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (D)--
                                    (I) by striking ``establish'' and 
                                inserting ``scale established'';
                                    (II) by striking ``purchasing, 
                                toxics management,''; and
                                    (III) by inserting ``resilience, 
                                green workforce,'' after 
                                ``transportation,''; and
                            (iii) in subparagraph (G), by inserting 
                        ``economics, law, political science,'' after 
                        ``business,''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``of'' 
                        and inserting ``relating to''; and
                            (ii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting 
                        ``city and State governments,'' after 
                        ``business,'';
            (3) in subsection (e), by striking ``$250,000 or more than 
        $2,000,000'' and inserting ``$200,000 or more than $500,000''; 
        and
            (4) in subsection (f), by striking ``2009'' and inserting 
        ``2020''.
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