Title: To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 institutions.
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
This bill rescinds specified funds that were provided to the Department of Agriculture for assistance and support for socially disadvantaged farmers, ranchers, and forest land owners and operators. The bill makes the rescinded funds available for scholarships at 1890 Institutions (i.e., historically Black colleges and universities that belong to the U.S. land-grant university system).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4252 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4252

  To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 
                             institutions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 2021

Mr. David Scott of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Yarmuth, Mr. McGovern, Mr. 
 Bishop of Georgia, Ms. Adams, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Plaskett, Mrs. Hayes, 
 and Mrs. Beatty) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                      the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 
                             institutions.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS AT 1890 
              INSTITUTIONS.

    (a) Rescission.--There is rescinded of the unobligated balance of 
amounts made available by section 1006 of the American Rescue Plan Act 
(Public Law 117-2), $100,000,000.
    (b) Funding.--If sufficient unobligated amounts made available by 
section 1006 of the American Rescue Plan Act (Public Law 117-2) are 
available on the date of enactment of this Act to execute the entire 
rescission described in subsection (a), then on the day after the 
execution of the entire rescission, there is appropriated to the 
Secretary of Agriculture, out of amounts in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, $100,000,000, to remain available until expended, to 
carry out section 1446 of the National Agricultural Research, 
Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222a).
    (c) Administrative Funds.--Of the funds made available under 
subsection (b) to carry out section 1446 of the National Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222a) 
for a fiscal year, not more than 4 percent may be used for expenses 
related to administering the program under such section 1446.
    (d) Extension.--Section 1446(b) of the National Agricultural 
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
3222a(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``each of fiscal years 
        2020 through 2023'' and inserting ``fiscal year 2020 and each 
        fiscal year thereafter''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Fiscal year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter.--Of 
        the amounts made available under section 1(b) of the Act to 
        provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 
        1890 institutions, the Secretary shall make available to carry 
        out this section $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2024 and each 
        fiscal year thereafter.''.
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