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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.</text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish a taskforce within the Department of Education to recommend improvements to the study of modeling and simulation, and identify the core capacities that students in such programs should acquire.</p> <p>Authorizes the Secretary to award: (1) competitive grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) for the enhancement of their existing modeling and simulation programs; and (2) grants to IHEs for the establishment of such programs. Requires grantees to raise, from nonfederal sources, an amount equal to 25% of their grants. </p>]]></text>
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    <title>To provide grants to encourage and enhance the study of modeling and simulation at institutions of higher education.</title>
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