United States HR 4852: GIVE Act

Bill Text

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116TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION H. R. 4852
To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs to make available to veterans certain additional information about
postsecondary educational institutions, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Mrs. TORRES of California introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs to make available to veterans
certain additional information about postsecondary edu-
cational institutions, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘G.I. and Veterans Edu-4
cation Empowerment Act’’ or the ‘‘GIVE Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY DEPARTMENT OF VET-1
ERANS AFFAIRS ABOUT POSTSECONDARY 2
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. 3
(a) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED.— 4
Subsection (c) of section 3698 of title 38, United States 5
Code, is amended— 6
(1) in paragraph (1)(C)— 7
(A) in clause (xi), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 8
end; 9
(B) in clause (xii), by striking the period 10
and inserting a semicolon; and 11
(C) by adding at the end the following new 12
clauses: 13
‘‘(xiii) whether the institution is listed on 14
the College Navigator website as affiliated with 15
a religion and, if so, which religious denomina-16
tion; 17
‘‘(xiv) whether the Secretary of Education 18
or other head of a department or agency of the 19
Federal Government has determined that the 20
institution is a minority serving institution and, 21
if so, which one or more types of minority serv-22
ing institutions; and 23
‘‘(xv) whether the institution is gender spe-24
cific.’’; and 25
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(2) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the 1
following new sentence: ‘‘To the extent practicable, 2
the Secretary shall ensure that such information is 3
provided in a searchable format.’’. 4
(b) DEFINITION.—Subsection (f) of such section is 5
amended by adding at the end the following new para-6
graphs: 7
‘‘(3) The term ‘College Navigator website’ has 8
the meaning given that term in section 132 of the 9
Higher Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1015a). 10
‘‘(4) The term ‘minority serving institution’ 11
means any of the following: 12
‘‘(A) A part B institution, as such term is 13
defined in section 322(2) of the Higher Edu-14
cation Act (20 U.S.C. 1061(2)). 15
‘‘(B) A Hispanic-serving institution, as 16
such term is defined in section 502(a)(5) of 17
such Act (20 U.S.C. 1101a(5)). 18
‘‘(C) A Tribal College or University, as 19
such term is defined in section 316(b)(3) of 20
such Act (20 U.S.C. 1059c(b)(3)). 21
‘‘(D) A predominantly Black institution, as 22
such term is defined in section 318(b)(6) of 23
such Act (20 U.S.C. 1059e(b)(6)). 24
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‘‘(E) A Native American-serving, nontribal 1
institution, as such term is defined in section 2
319(b)(2) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1059f(b)(6)). 3
‘‘(F) An Alaska Native-serving institution 4
or Native Hawaiian-serving institution, as such 5
terms are defined in section 317(b) of such Act 6
(20 U.S.C. 1059d(b)). 7
‘‘(G) An Asian American and Native 8
American Pacific Islander-serving institution, as 9
such term is defined in section 320(b) of such 10
Act (20 U.S.C. 1059g(b)).’’. 11
(c) APPLICATION.—The amendments made by this 12
section shall apply with respect to the information pro-13
vided under section 3698 of title 38, United States Code, 14
beginning on the date that is two years after the date of 15
the enactment of this Act. 16
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