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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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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