NACIE Improvement Act

National Advisory Council on Indian Education Improvement Act or the NACIE Improvement Act

This bill revises the membership and duties of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education.

Specifically, the bill requires the President to ensure that the council includes at least one member who is the president of a tribal college or university.

Additionally, the bill requires the council to submit its annual report to the Department of Education (ED) and the Department of the Interior.

ED and Interior must consider the council's report when preparing their budget materials.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7234 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7234

   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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 5, 2024

    Mr. Neguse (for himself, Mr. LaMalfa, and Ms. Davids of Kansas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   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.

    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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