[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