[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1499 Reported in Senate (RS)]
Calendar No. 244
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1499
[Report No. 107-101]
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 31, 2001
Received
August 2, 2001
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs
November 29, 2001
Reported by Mr. Lieberman, with an amendment and an amendment to the
title
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed
in italic]
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AN ACT
To amend the District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 to permit
individuals who graduated from a secondary school prior to 1998 and
individuals who enroll in an institution of higher education more than
3 years after graduating from a secondary school to participate in the
tuition assistance programs under such Act, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>
<DELETED> This Act may be cited as the ``District of Columbia
College Access Act Technical Corrections Act of 2001''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 2. REVISIONS TO ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR TUITION
ASSISTANCE UNDER DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS
ACT.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (a) Permitting Certain Individuals to Participate in
Tuition Assistance Program.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) Individuals graduating from secondary school
prior to 1998.--Section 3(c)(2)(B) of the District of Columbia
College Access Act of 1999 (Public Law 106-98; 113 Stat. 1325)
is amended by striking ``on or after January 1,
1998''.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) Individuals enrolling more than 3 years after
graduating from secondary school.--Section 3(c)(2) of such Act
(Public Law 106-98; 113 Stat. 1325) is amended by striking
subparagraph (C).</DELETED>
<DELETED> (b) Prohibiting Participation of Foreign Nationals.--
Section 3(c)(2) of such Act (Public Law 106-98; 113 Stat. 1325), as
amended by subsection (a)(2), is amended by inserting after
subparagraph (B) the following:</DELETED>
<DELETED> ``(C) meets the citizenship and
immigration status requirements described in section
484(a)(5) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 1091(a)(5));''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.</DELETED>
<DELETED> The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the
date of the enactment of this Act.</DELETED>
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``District of Columbia College Access
Improvement Act of 2001''.
SEC. 2. PUBLIC SCHOOL PROGRAM.
Section 3(c)(2) of the District of Columbia College Access Act of
1999 is amended by striking subparagraphs (A) through (C) and inserting
the following:
``(A)(i) for individuals who begin an undergraduate
course of study within 3 calendar years (excluding any
period of service on active duty in the armed forces,
or service under the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2501 et
seq.) or subtitle D of title I of the National and
Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12571 et
seq.)) of graduation from a secondary school, or
obtaining the recognized equivalent of a secondary
school diploma, was domiciled in the District of
Columbia for not less than the 12 consecutive months
preceding the commencement of the freshman year at an
institution of higher education; or
``(ii) for all other individuals and for those
applicants re-enrolling after more than a 3-year break
in their post-secondary education, has been domiciled
in the District of Columbia for at least 5 consecutive
years at the date of application;
``(B)(i) graduated from a secondary school or
received the recognized equivalent of a secondary
school diploma on or after January 1, 1998;
``(ii) for applicants that did not graduate from a
secondary school or receive a recognized equivalent of
a secondary school diploma, is accepted for enrollment
as a freshman at an eligible institution on or after
January 1, 2002; or
``(iii) for applicants who graduated from a
secondary school or received the recognized equivalent
of a secondary school diploma before January 1, 1998,
is currently enrolled at an eligible institution as of
the date of enactment of the District of Columbia
College Access Improvement Act of 2001;
``(C) meets the citizenship and immigration status
requirements described in section 484(a)(5) of the
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1091(a)(5));''.
SEC. 3. PRIVATE SCHOOL PROGRAM.
Section 5(c)(1)(B) of the District of Columbia College Access Act
of 1999 is amended by striking ``The main campus of which is located in
the State of Maryland or the Commonwealth of Virginia''.
SEC. 4. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.
Section 6 of the District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 is
amended--
(1) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:
``(b) Administrative Expenses.--
``(1) In general.--The Mayor of the District of Columbia
may not use more than 7 percent of the total amount of Federal
funds appropriated for the program, retroactive to the date of
enactment of this Act (the District of Columbia College Access
Act of 1999), for the administrative expenses of the program.
``(2) Definition.--In this subsection, the term
`administrative expenses' means any expenses that are not
directly used to pay the cost of tuition and fees for eligible
students to attend eligible institutions.'';
(2) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as subsections
(f) and (g);
(3) by inserting after subsection (d) the following:
``(e) Local Funds.--It is the sense of Congress that the District
of Columbia may appropriate such local funds as necessary for the
Program.''; and
(4) by inserting at the end the following:
``(h) Dedicated Account for the Resident Tuition Support Program.--
The District of Columbia government shall establish a dedicated account
for the Resident Tuition Support Program that shall consist of the
Federal funds appropriated to the Program in this Act and any
subsequent appropriations, any unobligated balances from prior fiscal
years, and any interest earned in this or any fiscal years. The funds
in this dedicated account may be used to help pay the cost of tuition
and fees for eligible students to attend eligible institutions if the
fiscal year appropriation for that year is insufficient to cover the
cost of tuition and fees for that year.''.
Amend the title so as to read: ``An Act to amend the District of
Columbia College Access Act of 1999 to permit individuals who enroll in
an institution of higher education more than 3 years after graduating
from a secondary school and individuals who attend private historically
black colleges and universities nationwide to participate in the
tuition assistance programs under such Act, and for other purposes.''.
Calendar No. 244
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1499
[Report No. 107-101]
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To amend the District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 to permit
individuals who graduated from a secondary school prior to 1998 and
individuals who enroll in an institution of higher education more than
3 years after graduating from a secondary school to participate in the
tuition assistance programs under such Act, and for other purposes.
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November 29, 2001
Reported with an amendment and an amendment to the title