[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4352 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4352

To amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 
  to require reporting by the Secretary of Education on requests for 
 funding research that were not granted and had the greatest potential 
 for improving career and technical education, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 2017

Mr. Lewis of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
            to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 
  to require reporting by the Secretary of Education on requests for 
 funding research that were not granted and had the greatest potential 
 for improving career and technical education, 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 ``Missed Opportunities in Career and 
Technical Education Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTING ON MISSED OPPORTUNITIES.

    Part A of title III of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical 
Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2391 et seq.) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:

``SEC. 319. ANNUAL REPORTING ON MISSED OPPORTUNITIES.

    ``(a) In General.--Not later than the last day of the first fiscal 
quarter following the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall 
submit a report to Congress--
            ``(1) identifying--
                    ``(A) the total number of requests that were under 
                review during such fiscal year by any office, agency, 
                institute, or center of the Department of Education for 
                funding, in whole or in part, career and technical 
                education programs; and
                    ``(B) of such total number--
                            ``(i) the number of such requests that were 
                        granted;
                            ``(ii) the number of such requests that 
                        were denied; and
                            ``(iii) the number of such requests that 
                        remained pending at the end of the fiscal year; 
                        and
            ``(2) with respect to the requests described in clauses 
        (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (1)(B), identifying the requests 
        with the greatest potential for improving career and technical 
        education.
    ``(b) Trade Secrets and Confidential Information.--This section 
does not authorize the Secretary to disclose any information that is a 
trade secret or confidential information subject to section 552(b)(4) 
of title 5, United States Code, or section 1905 of title 18, United 
States Code.''.
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