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        <text>Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7496)</text>
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        <fullName>Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]</fullName>
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        <fullName>Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Rural Teacher Housing Act of 2003 - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide funds to an eligible State (with a population of fewer than one million people) to make grants to eligible school districts located within a qualified municipality (with a population of 6,500 or fewer and no direct access to either a State or interstate highway system) within the boundaries of Indian lands, one or more Native villages, or land owned by one or more Village Corporations).</p> <p></p> <p>Requires such grants to be used for: (1) construction of new housing units within a qualified municipality; (2) the purchase and rehabilitation of existing housing units within a qualified municipality; or (3) the rehabilitation of housing units within a qualified municipality that are owned by an eligible school district.</p> <p>Requires the occupants of such housing units to be teachers or other staff employed by the public school district in which the housing units are located.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>Rural Teacher Housing Act of 2003</title>
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        <title>A bill to provide discounted housing for teachers and other staff in rural areas of States with a population less than 1,000,000 and with a high population of Native Americans or Alaska Natives.</title>
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