[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3710 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3710

   To reauthorize appropriations for the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship 
                    Program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 7, 2017

 Ms. Velazquez (for herself, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. 
  Grijalva, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Cohen, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Evans, Mr. 
  Ellison, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. Norton, and Mr. 
   Khanna) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To reauthorize appropriations for the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship 
                    Program, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Javits Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 705 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1134d) 
is amended by striking ``2009'' and inserting ``2018''.

SEC. 3. FELLOWSHIP AWARDS FOR MUSIC EDUCATION.

    The Secretary of Education shall ensure that music education is 
included among the fields of study for which a fellowship may be 
awarded under subpart 1 of part A of title VII of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1134 et seq.).
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