[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4699 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4699

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the use of title 
        III funds for the establishment LGBTQ resource centers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 20, 2017

Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Brown of Maryland, Mr. Carson 
  of Indiana, Mr. Crist, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Gomez, Mr. 
Grijalva, Ms. Lee, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, 
 Mr. Pallone, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Swalwell of California, Ms. 
 Titus, Mrs. Watson Coleman, and Ms. Norton) 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 authorize the use of title 
        III funds for the establishment LGBTQ resource centers.

    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 ``Inclusive Campuses Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR LGBTQ RESOURCE CENTERS.

    Part G of title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1068 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 399A. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR LGBTQ RESOURCE CENTERS.

    ``Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, an institution 
that receives funds under this title may use a portion of such funds to 
establish an on-campus resource center that provides--
            ``(1) support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and 
        queer students; and
            ``(2) programming and education about such students to the 
        entire campus community.''.
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