Diversify Act

Bill: 116-hr-5350
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Garcia, Jesus G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2019-12-06
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt

Education of the disadvantaged

Education programs funding

Higher education

Student aid and college costs

Teaching, teachers, curricula
Latest action: action_date: 2019-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-12-06
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Diversifying by Investing in Educators and Students to Improve Outcomes For Youth Act or the Diversify Act</strong></p> <p>This bill increases the maximum grant award under&nbsp;the&nbsp;Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program. The TEACH program awards grants to college students who plan to teach in low-income areas. </p> <p>The bill also exempts the TEACH program from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5350 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 6, 2019 Mr. García of Illinois (for himself, Mrs. Hayes , Mr. Takano , Mr. Grijalva , Ms. Schakowsky , Mr. Khanna , Mr. Cisneros , Ms. Scanlon , Mr. Espaillat , Ms. Norton , Mr. Rush , Ms. Blunt Rochester , Mr. Bishop of Georgia , Mr. Hastings , Mr. Kennedy , Ms. Jayapal , Mr. Panetta , Mrs. Luria , Mr. Schiff , Ms. Haaland , Mr. Carson of Indiana , Ms. Adams , Mrs. Napolitano , Mr. Cárdenas , Mr. Courtney , Ms. Meng , Mr. Nadler , Ms. Judy Chu of California , and Mr. Cohen ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor , and in addition to the Committee on the Budget , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To remove college cost as a barrier to every student having access to a well-prepared and diverse educator workforce, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Diversifying by Investing in Educators and Students to Improve Outcomes For Youth Act or the Diversify Act . 2. Amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 Section 420M of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1070g–1 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking $4,000 and inserting $8,000 ; and (2) in subsection (d)— (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking $16,000 and inserting $32,000 ; and (B) in paragraph (2), by striking $8,000 and inserting $16,000 . 3. Amendment to the Balanced Budget and Deficit Control Act Section 255(h) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 255(h) ) is amended by inserting after the item relating to Supplemental Security Income Program (28–0406–0–1–609). the following new item: TEACH Grants under Subpart 9, Part A, Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. .