[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5696 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5696

    To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to support innovative 
                        technology partnerships.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 8, 2016

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

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to support innovative 
                        technology partnerships.

    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 ``Coding Technology Improvements 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SUPPORT OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS.

    Section 744(c) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1138c(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) Support of innovative technology partnerships, 
        through grants to encourage increased innovation in higher 
        education programs that are offered through partnerships 
        between institutions of higher education and nontraditional 
        providers not traditionally eligible to participate in title IV 
        programs, and that are approved by a quality assurance entity 
        (which meets the requirements for such an entity described in 
        the notice published in the Federal Register by the Department 
        of Education on October 15, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 62047 et seq.)), 
        including programs on coding, high-technology software, or 
        computer science. Such grants may be used to assist in 
        assessing whether such partnerships--
                    ``(A) increase access to innovative and effective 
                educational programs, particularly for students from 
                low-income backgrounds;
                    ``(B) assess quality assurance processes 
                appropriate for the nontraditional providers and 
                programs described in this paragraph; and
                    ``(C) identify ways to protect students and 
                taxpayers from risk, including lack of employment or 
                increase of personal debt.''.
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