Inclusive Campuses Act

Bill: 115-hr-4699
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2017-12-20
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Education programs funding

Educational facilities and institutions

Higher education

Minority education

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Latest action: action_date: 2017-12-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-12-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Inclusive Campuses Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions of higher education to use federal aid provided under title III of the Act to establish resource centers on campus that provide support to and education about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4699 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 20, 2017 Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Brown of Maryland , Mr. Carson of Indiana , Mr. Crist , Mr. DeSaulnier , Mr. Ellison , Mr. Gomez , Mr. Grijalva , Ms. Lee , Mr. Lowenthal , Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York , Mr. Pallone , Mr. Pocan , Mr. Serrano , Mr. Swalwell of California , Ms. Titus , Mrs. Watson Coleman , and Ms. Norton ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the use of title III funds for the establishment LGBTQ resource centers.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Inclusive Campuses Act . 2. Grants for LGBTQ resource centers Part G of title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1068 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 399A. Availability of funds for LGBTQ resource centers Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, an institution that receives funds under this title may use a portion of such funds to establish an on-campus resource center that provides— (1) support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans­gen­der, and queer students; and (2) programming and education about such students to the entire campus community. .