[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1459 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1459

    To increase the supply of minority scientists and help meet the 
research and development needs of the public and private sectors of the 
                             United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 1995

Mr. Thompson (for himself, Mr. Hilliard, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Montgomery, 
Ms. Jackson-Lee, Mr. Fields of Louisiana, and Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson 
  of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                          Committee on Science

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                                 A BILL


 
    To increase the supply of minority scientists and help meet the 
research and development needs of the public and private sectors of the 
                             United States.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) there is a need for more minority scientists in the 
        United States to meet the research needs of the public and 
        private sectors of the Nation;
            (2) to increase the number of minority scientists, four 
        historically Black universities, Alabama A&M University in 
        Huntsville, Alabama, Jackson State University in Jackson, 
        Mississippi, Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, 
        Texas, and Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, 
        Louisiana, along with the Lawrence Livermore National 
        Laboratory in Livermore, California, established a Science and 
        Engineering Alliance (in this Act referred to as the 
        ``Alliance'') in 1990;
            (3) since its establishment, the Alliance has demonstrated 
        its impact on increasing the number of minority scientists and 
        providing opportunities for such scientists to improve their 
        skills;
            (4) the Alliance has developed a Teacher 2000 initiative to 
        increase the number of minority science teachers in the United 
        States;
            (5) such initiative will establish Centers of Excellence in 
        Teacher Preparation at the four universities described in 
        paragraph (2); and
            (6) such initiative would be a pilot project that can serve 
        as a national model for increasing the number of minority 
        scientists.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to the National Science 
Foundation $6,500,000, to be made available to the Alliance for the 
Centers of Excellence in Teacher Preparation.
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