[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4081 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4081

To prohibit funds made available to the Department of Education or the 
Department of Justice from being used to provide postsecondary courses 
                              in prisons.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2014

    Mr. Collins of New York (for himself, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Gibson) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the 
 Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit funds made available to the Department of Education or the 
Department of Justice from being used to provide postsecondary courses 
                              in prisons.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR COLLEGE COURSES IN PRISONS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds made available 
to the Department of Education or the Department of Justice shall be 
used to provide or assist in providing a postsecondary course to an 
inmate in a Federal or State prison.
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