Title: NACIE Improvement Act
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
National Advisory Council on Indian Education Improvement Act or the NACIE Improvement Act
This bill revises the membership and duties of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education.
Specifically, the bill requires the council to (1) include at least one member who is the president of a tribal college or university, and (2) submit its annual report to the Department of Education (ED) and the Department of the Interior.
ED and Interior must consider the council's report when preparing their budget materials.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5104 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5104

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require 
the National Advisory Council on Indian Education to include at least 1 
 member who is the president of a Tribal College or University and to 
 require the Secretaries of Education and the Interior to consider the 
    National Advisory Council on Indian Education's reports in the 
                    preparation of budget materials.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 16, 2022

 Mrs. Fischer (for herself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Rounds, Ms. Smith, and Mr. 
Moran) 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 Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require 
the National Advisory Council on Indian Education to include at least 1 
 member who is the president of a Tribal College or University and to 
 require the Secretaries of Education and the Interior to consider the 
    National Advisory Council on Indian Education's reports in the 
                    preparation of budget materials.

    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 ``National Advisory Council on Indian 
Education Improvement Act'' or the ``NACIE Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON INDIAN EDUCATION.

    (a) In General.--Section 6141(a)(1) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7471(a)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting ``, and who shall 
        include at least one president of a Tribal College or 
        University (as defined in section 316(b) of the Higher 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059c(b)))'' after 
        ``organizations''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)(3), by inserting ``the Secretary, and 
        the Secretary of the Interior,'' after ``Congress,''.
    (b) Consideration of Reports.--
            (1) Department of education.--The Secretary of Education, 
        in preparing the budget materials submitted to Congress by the 
        Secretary in support of the budget of the United States 
        Government that is submitted under section 1105 of title 31, 
        United States Code, shall consider the report prepared under 
        section 6141(b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
        of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7471(b)).
            (2) Department of the interior.--The Secretary of the 
        Interior, in preparing the budget materials submitted to 
        Congress by the Secretary in support of the budget of the 
        United States Government that is submitted under section 1105 
        of title 31, United States Code, shall consider the report 
        prepared under section 6141(b) of the Elementary and Secondary 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7471(b)).
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