To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 institutions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 119-hr-1271
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13]
Introduced: 2025-02-12
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-02-12
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill provides specified funds to the 1890 Scholarships Program for FY2025 and each succeeding year for student scholarships. This National Institute of Food and Agriculture program provides grants to 1890 Institutions (i.e., historically Black colleges and universities that belong to the U.S. land-grant university system) for students who intend to pursue a career in the food and agricultural sciences.</p><p>The bill also permanently&nbsp;reauthorizes the 1890 Scholarships Program.</p><p>Further, the bill specifies that student scholarships include&nbsp;scholarships for programs leading to a bachelor or graduate degree.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1271 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 12, 2025 Mr. David Scott of Georgia (for himself, Ms. Adams , Mrs. Beatty , Mr. Bishop , Ms. Brown , Mr. Carson , Mr. Davis of North Carolina , Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania , Mr. Fields , Ms. McBride , Mr. McGovern , Mrs. McIver , Ms. Sewell , Mr. Thanedar , and Mr. Thompson of Mississippi ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 institutions, and for other purposes.

1. Additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 institutions (a) Scholarships for bachelor or graduate programs Section 1446(a)(1) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 ( 7 U.S.C. 3222a(a)(1) ) is amended by striking scholarships to individuals and inserting scholarships (including for programs leading to a bachelor or graduate degree) to individuals . (b) Mandatory funding Section 1446(b)(1) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 ( 7 U.S.C. 3222a(b)(1) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (C) Fiscal year 2025 and fiscal years thereafter Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall make available to carry out this section $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, to remain available until expended. . (c) Discretionary funding Section 1446(b)(2) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 ( 7 U.S.C. 3222a(b)(2) ) is amended by striking each of fiscal years 2020 through 2023 and inserting fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter . (d) Conforming amendments Section 1446(a)(3) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 ( 7 U.S.C. 3222a(a)(3) ) is amended by striking each of the 4 succeeding academic years and inserting each academic year thereafter for which funding is available under subsection (b)(1) .