[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1549 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1549

 To use data from school years preceding the Gulf hurricane disasters 
 for purposes of determining allotments under title III of the Higher 
   Education Act of 1965 to institutions impacted by those disasters.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 15, 2007

  Mr. Jindal introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To use data from school years preceding the Gulf hurricane disasters 
 for purposes of determining allotments under title III of the Higher 
   Education Act of 1965 to institutions impacted by those disasters.

    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 ``College and University Hurricane 
Revitalization Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that the following:
            (1) Hurricane Katrina struck the United States Gulf Coast 
        on August 29, 2005, causing widespread flooding and significant 
        property and infrastructure damage to the colleges and 
        universities in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
            (2) On September 24, 2005, Hurricane Rita struck near the 
        border between Texas and Louisiana, causing further damage in 
        eastern Texas and western Louisiana.
            (3) In New Orleans alone, enrollment suddenly decreased at 
        colleges and universities by more than 30 percent, revenue 
        losses exceeded $300 million, and property losses were 
        approximately $1 billion.
            (4) Although valuable assistance has been provided, without 
        addressing the next five-year funding allocation calculation, 
        the colleges and universities will be severely restricted 
        financially to the point of risking their financial viability 
        and dramatically delaying their future recovery.

SEC. 3. CALCULATION.

    For the purpose of calculating the allotments of grants to 
institutions of higher education located in a parish or county for 
which the President declared a major disaster exists in accordance with 
section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 4170) related to Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, 
the Secretary of Education shall, for the 2007-2012 cycle under title 
III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1051 et seq.), 
consider data from the school year immediately preceding the school 
year which included August 29, 2005, rather than current school year 
data for any institution of higher education that submits a written 
request to the Secretary for such consideration. The Secretary shall 
notify each institution of higher education located in such a parish or 
county of the provisions of this section.
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