[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 82 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 82

 To establish a higher education recruitment and retention initiative 
            and a leadership for human survival initiative.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 21 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Inouye introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish a higher education recruitment and retention initiative 
            and a leadership for human survival initiative.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
    (a) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this section to develop, 
establish, and operate--
            (1) a program to recruit for enrollment in an institution 
        of higher education and graduate Native Hawaiian, Native 
        American Samoan, Micronesian, and Filipino students; and
            (2) a leadership for human survival initiative that 
        encourages secondary school students to become future leaders 
        by teaching such students through a curriculum developed by the 
        Hokule'a and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
    (b) Higher Education Recruitment and Retention Initiative.--
            (1) In general.--The Director of the National Science 
        Foundation shall award a grant to an institution of higher 
        education to enable such institution to develop, establish, and 
        operate a program to encourage Native Hawaiian, Native American 
        Samoan, Micronesian, and Filipino students to enroll in a 
        program of higher education. Such program shall--
                    (A) provide recruitment and enrollment assistance 
                for such students to encourage such students to attend 
                an institution of higher education;
                    (B) provide such students with assistance related 
                to remaining in school and successfully completing 
                their course of study; and
                    (C) encourage such students to study mathematics, 
                science and engineering.
            (2) Limitation.--Grants under this subsection only shall be 
        made to an institution of higher education with a strong record 
        of recruiting and retaining at such institution Native 
        Hawaiian, Native American Samoan, Micronesian, and Filipino 
        students.
    (c) Leadership for Human Survival Initiative.--The Director of the 
National Science Foundation shall award a grant to the Polynesian 
Voyaging Society to enable such organization, in consultation with the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to develop, establish, 
and operate a program to encourage secondary school students to become 
future leaders by training such students in human survival techniques 
and studying traditional conservation methods of populations indigenous 
to the Pacific Islands. Such program shall--
            (1) train secondary school students to implement research 
        on how modern science might solve a current human survival 
        problem by analyzing how issues such as housing, food or energy 
        production were addressed by populations indigenous to the 
        Pacific Islands; and
            (2) enable secondary students to explore topics such as 
        alternative and renewable energy sources, fisheries and ocean 
        resource development and management (reef or offshore), 
        aquaculture and fishpond management, land resource development 
        and management (forestry, agriculture, or land use planning), 
        low-cost housing, alternative transportation (wind and solar 
        driven land or sea transportation), pollution control and 
        recycling.
    (d) Definitions.--For the purpose of this section--
            (1) the term ``institution of higher education'' has the 
        same meaning given to such term by section 1201(a) of the 
        Higher Education Act of 1965; and
            (2) the term ``secondary school'' has the same meaning 
        given to such term by section 1471(21) of the Elementary and 
        Secondary Education Act of 1965.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated $2,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995, and 
1996 to carry out this Act, of which--
            (1) $1,000,000 shall be available in each such fiscal year 
        to carry out subsection (b); and
            (2) $1,000,000 shall be available in each such fiscal year 
        to carry out subsection (c).

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