[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 185 (Wednesday, November 8, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5434]
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     NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON INDIAN EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT ACT

  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be discharged from 
further consideration of S. 749 and the Senate proceed to its immediate 
consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 749) to ensure that the National Advisory 
     Council on Indian Education includes at least 1 member who is 
     the president of a Tribal College or University and to 
     require the Secretaries of Education and Interior to consider 
     the National Advisory Council on Indian Education's reports 
     in the preparation of budget materials.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered 
read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be 
considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 749) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed as follows:

                                 S. 749

       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 ``National Advisory Council on 
     Indian Education Improvement Act'' or the ``NACIE Improvement 
     Act''.

     SEC. 2. NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON INDIAN EDUCATION.

       (a) Membership of NACIE.--By not later than 180 days after 
     the date of enactment of this Act and notwithstanding any 
     other provision of section 6141 of the Elementary and 
     Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7471), the 
     President shall ensure that the National Advisory Council on 
     Indian Education established under such section includes at 
     least one member who is a president of a Tribal College or 
     University (as defined in section 316(b) of the Higher 
     Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059c(b)).
       (b) Consideration of Reports.--
       (1) Sharing of report with secretaries of education and 
     interior.--By not later than June 30 of each year, the 
     National Advisory Council on Indian Education shall provide 
     the NACIE annual report submitted to Congress under section 
     6141(b)(3) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
     1965 (20 U.S.C. 7471(b)(3)) for such year to the Secretary of 
     Education and the Secretary of the Interior.
       (2) Department of education.--The Secretary of Education, 
     in preparing the budget materials submitted to Congress by 
     the Secretary in support of the budget of the United States 
     Government that is submitted under section 1105 of title 31, 
     United States Code, shall consider the most recent NACIE 
     annual report.
       (3) Department of the interior.--The Secretary of the 
     Interior, in consultation with the Education Subcommittee of 
     the Tribal-Interior Budget Council, in preparing the budget 
     materials submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the 
     Interior in support of the budget of the United States 
     Government that is submitted under section 1105 of title 31, 
     United States Code, shall consider the most recent NACIE 
     annual report.
       (c) Definition.--In this section, the term ``NACIE annual 
     report'' means the report prepared under section 6141(b)(3) 
     of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
     U.S.C. 7471(b)(3)).

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