[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3330 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3330

 To prohibit discrimination and preferential treatment on the basis of 
  race, sex, color, national origin, or ethnicity in connection with 
 admission to an institution of higher education participating in any 
       program authorized under the Higher Education Act of 1965.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 4, 1998

  Mr. Riggs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit discrimination and preferential treatment on the basis of 
  race, sex, color, national origin, or ethnicity in connection with 
 admission to an institution of higher education participating in any 
       program authorized under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

    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 ``Anti-Discrimination in College 
Admissions Act of 1998''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION AND PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT.

    (a) Prohibition.--No institution of higher education that 
participates in any program authorized under the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) shall, in connection with admission to 
such institution, discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment 
to, any person or group based in whole or in part on the race, sex, 
color, ethnicity, or national origin of such person or group.
    (b) Outreach Activities Permitted.--Subsection (a) does not 
prohibit or limit any effort by an institution of higher education to 
encourage and recruit qualified women and minorities to seek admission 
to such institution if such recruitment or encouragement does not 
involve granting preferential treatment, in selecting any person for 
admission, that is based in whole or in part on race, sex, color, 
ethnicity, or national origin.
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