[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 415 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 415

 To amend GEAR UP to require that schools receiving funding under the 
  program provide students with access to academic and mental health 
              counseling services, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 10, 2017

Mrs. Lawrence introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend GEAR UP to require that schools receiving funding under the 
  program provide students with access to academic and mental health 
              counseling services, 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 ``GEAR UP for Counseling''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT OF ACADEMIC AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING.

    Section 404D(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1070a-24(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(5) Providing participating students access to academic 
        and mental health counseling services.''.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 404H of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a-
28) is amended by striking ``2009'' and inserting ``2018''.
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