Official Summaries

This bill provides specified funds to the 1890 Scholarships Program for FY2025 and each succeeding year for student scholarships. This National Institute of Food and Agriculture program provides grants to 1890 Institutions (i.e., historically Black colleges and universities that belong to the U.S. land-grant university system) for students who intend to pursue a career in the food and agricultural sciences.

The bill also permanently reauthorizes the 1890 Scholarships Program.

Further, the bill specifies that student scholarships include scholarships for programs leading to a bachelor or graduate degree.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1271 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1271

  To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 
                 institutions, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 12, 2025

 Mr. David Scott of Georgia (for himself, Ms. Adams, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. 
 Bishop, Ms. Brown, Mr. Carson, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Mr. Evans 
 of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fields, Ms. McBride, Mr. McGovern, Mrs. McIver, 
 Ms. Sewell, Mr. Thanedar, and Mr. Thompson of Mississippi) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 
                 institutions, 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. ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS AT 1890 
              INSTITUTIONS.

    (a) Scholarships for Bachelor or Graduate Programs.--Section 
1446(a)(1) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and 
Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3222a(a)(1)) is amended by 
striking ``scholarships to individuals'' and inserting ``scholarships 
(including for programs leading to a bachelor or graduate degree) to 
individuals''.
    (b) Mandatory Funding.--Section 1446(b)(1) of the National 
Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3222a(b)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Fiscal year 2025 and fiscal years 
                thereafter.--Of the funds of the Commodity Credit 
                Corporation, the Secretary shall make available to 
                carry out this section $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2025 
                and each fiscal year thereafter, to remain available 
                until expended.''.
    (c) Discretionary Funding.--Section 1446(b)(2) of the National 
Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3222a(b)(2)) is amended by striking ``each of fiscal years 2020 
through 2023'' and inserting ``fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year 
thereafter''.
    (d) Conforming Amendments.--Section 1446(a)(3) of the National 
Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3222a(a)(3)) is amended by striking ``each of the 4 succeeding 
academic years'' and inserting ``each academic year thereafter for 
which funding is available under subsection (b)(1)''.
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