116 S 256 ENR: To amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to provide flexibility and reauthorization to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages.
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One Hundred Sixteenth Congress of the United States of AmericaA T T H E F I R S T S E S S I O N
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of January, two thousand and nineteen
An Act
To amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to provide flexibility and reauthorization to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages.
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 “Esther Martinez Native American Languages Programs Reauthorization Act”.
SEC. 2. NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES GRANT PROGRAM. Section 803C of the Native American Programs Act of 1974 ([42 U.S.C. 2991b–3]) is amended—(1) in subsection (b)(7)—(A) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking “10” and inserting “5”; and(B) in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking “15” and inserting “10”; and(2) in subsection (e)(2)—(A) by striking “or 3-year basis” and inserting “3-year, 4-year, or 5-year basis”; and(B) by inserting “, 4-year, or 5-year” after “on a 3-year”.
SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES PROGRAM.(a) In General.—Section 816(e) of the Native American Programs Act of 1974 ([42 U.S.C. 2992d(e)]) is amended by striking “such sums” and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting “$13,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2024.”.(b) Technical Correction.—Section 816 of the Native American Programs Act of 1974 ([42 U.S.C. 2992d]) is amended in subsections (a) and (b) by striking “subsection (e)” each place it appears and inserting “subsection (d)”.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.