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        <text><![CDATA[ <p> <strong>Providing Assistance for</strong><strong> Transit Help to College Act or the PATH to College Act</strong> <p>This bill authorizes grants for improving transit connections for students at institutions of higher education, such as by adding transit stops within walking distance of a campus or subsidizing transit costs for students. The Department of Transportation may award the grants to partnerships of public transit providers and one or more community colleges, historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities, and other minority-serving institutions.</p>]]></text>
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