[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1345 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1345

    To provide land-grant status for tribally controlled community 
 colleges, tribally controlled postsecondary vocational institutions, 
  the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 
Development, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, and Haskell Indian 
                Junior College, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               August 3 (legislative day, June 30), 1993

 Mr. Bingaman (for himself, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. 
Levin, Mr. Riegle, Mr. Simon, and Mr. Daschle) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide land-grant status for tribally controlled community 
 colleges, tribally controlled postsecondary vocational institutions, 
  the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 
Development, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, and Haskell Indian 
                Junior College, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Equity in Educational Land-Grant 
Status Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this Act:
            (1) Institute.--The term ``Institute'' means the Institute 
        of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts 
        Development established under section 1504 of the American 
        Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Culture and Art 
        Development Act (20 U.S.C. 4411).
            (2) Tribally controlled community colleges.--The term 
        ``tribally controlled community colleges'' has the meaning 
        given such term by section 2(a)(4) of the Tribally Controlled 
        Community College Assistance Act of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 
        1801(a)(4)).
            (3) Tribally controlled postsecondary vocational 
        institutions.--The term ``tribally controlled postsecondary 
        vocational institutions'' has the meaning given such term by 
        section 390(2) of the Tribally Controlled Vocational 
        Institutions Support Act of 1990 (20 U.S.C. 2397h).

SEC. 3. LAND-GRANT STATUS FOR TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COMMUNITY COLLEGES 
              AND TRIBALLY CONTROLLED POSTSECONDARY VOCATIONAL 
              INSTITUTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Tribally controlled community colleges, tribally 
controlled postsecondary vocational institutions, the Institute, 
Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, and Haskell Indian Junior 
College shall be considered land-grant colleges established for the 
benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts in accordance with the 
provisions of the Act of July 2, 1862, as amended (12 Stat. 503; 7 
U.S.C. 301-305, 307, and 308).
    (b) Applicability of Related Provisions.--Any provision of any Act 
of Congress relating to the operation of, or provision of, assistance 
to a land-grant college in the United States, Puerto Rico, the District 
of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the Northern 
Mariana Islands shall apply to the land-grant colleges and institutions 
described in subsection (a) in the same manner and to the same extent.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--In lieu of extending to the 
colleges and institutions described in subsection (a) those provisions 
of the Act of July 2, 1862, as amended, relating to donations of public 
land or land scrip for the endowment and maintenance of colleges for 
the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, there is authorized 
to be appropriated $10,000,000 to such tribal colleges and 
institutions. Amounts appropriated pursuant to this section shall be 
held and considered to have been granted to such colleges and 
institutions subject to the provisions of that Act applicable to the 
proceeds from the sale of land or land scrip.

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