To amend the Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Assistance Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to waive certain eligibility requirements.

Amends the Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Assistance Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to waive, for up to seven years, Tribally Controlled Colleges or Universities Grant program eligibility requirements for tribally controlled colleges or universities that: (1) have received assistance under that program for ten consecutive years, (2) are located on Indian land in a county whose Indian population did not decrease by more than 1% between the two most recent decennial censuses, and (3) the Secretary determines will use the waiver to support higher education opportunities appropriate to Indian needs. (The requirements that may be waived deal with school governance, adherence to Indian needs, student body composition, and accreditation.)

Deems an application for such a waiver to be approved if the Secretary does not act upon it within 30 days of its receipt.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2069 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2069

 To amend the Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Assistance 
Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to waive certain 
                       eligibility requirements.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2013

 Mr. Benishek introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Assistance 
Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to waive certain 
                       eligibility requirements.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO THE TRIBALLY CONTROLLED COLLEGES AND 
              UNIVERSITIES ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1978.

    Section 103 of the Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities 
Assistance Act of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 1804) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``To be eligible'' and inserting ``(a) To 
        be eligible''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsections:
    ``(b) The Secretary may waive the eligibility requirements set 
forth in subsection (a) for a period of not more than 7 years upon 
request by a tribally controlled college or university--
            ``(1) that has received assistance under this title for 10 
        consecutive years;
            ``(2) that is located on Indian lands;
            ``(3) that is located in a county that has an Indian 
        population that did not decrease by more than one percent 
        during the interval between the two most recent decennial 
        censuses of population under section 141 of the title 13, 
        United States Code; and
            ``(4) for which the Secretary has determined that such a 
        waiver will support higher education opportunities appropriate 
        to the needs of Indians.
    ``(c) The Secretary shall approve or deny an application for a 
waiver under subsection (b) within 30 days of receipt of such an 
application or such application shall be deemed to be approved.''.
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