[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5824 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5824

To authorize the Secretary of Labor to award a grant to the Manchester 
  Bidwell Corporation to improve, expand, and replicate the arts and 
       technology education centers operated by such corporation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2006

   Ms. Hart introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of Labor to award a grant to the Manchester 
  Bidwell Corporation to improve, expand, and replicate the arts and 
       technology education centers operated by such corporation.

    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 ``Manchester Bidwell Center for Arts 
and Technology Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANT TO MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Labor is authorized to award a 
grant to the Manchester Bidwell Corporation, a nonprofit organization 
incorporated in the State of Pennsylvania, to improve, expand, and 
replicate the arts and technology education centers operated by such 
corporation.
    (b) Activities.--The Manchester Bidwell Corporation may use the 
grant awarded under this Act to conduct any of the following 
activities:
            (1) Development of a business plan to replicate at other 
        locations in the United States the arts and technology 
        education centers modeled after the Manchester Bidwell 
        Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
            (2) Implementation of the business plan developed under 
        paragraph (1) at locations in the United States where there is 
        an interest in establishing arts and technology education 
        centers similar to the arts and technology education centers 
        operated by the Manchester Bidwell Corporation in Pittsburgh, 
        Pennsylvania; and
            (3) any other activities the Secretary determines to be 
        appropriate.
    (c) Matching Requirement.--In order to be eligible to receive the 
grant described in subsection (a), the Manchester Bidwell Corporation 
shall provide matching funds from non-Federal sources (in cash or in 
kind), in an amount equal to or greater than the Federal funds received 
in accordance with subsection (a), to carry out the activities 
supported by the grant.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated in the aggregate $6,000,000 
for fiscal years 2007 through 2009, to carry out this Act.
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