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Senate Bill 2928
116th Congress(2019-2020)
Higher Education Sustainability Act of 2019
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Introduced in Senate on Nov 21, 2019
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S. 2928 (Introduced-in-Senate)


116th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2928


To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reauthorize the University Sustainability Program.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

November 21, 2019

Mr. Whitehouse (for himself, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Rosen, and Mr. Booker) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

A BILL

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reauthorize the University Sustainability Program.

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 “Higher Education Sustainability Act of 2019”.

SEC. 2. University Sustainability Program amendments.

Section 881 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1161u) is amended—

(1) in subsection (a)—

(A) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:

“(1) IN GENERAL.—From the amounts appropriated to carry out this section, the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall make grants to eligible entities to establish sustainability programs to design and implement the teaching and practice of sustainability, including in the areas of staff and faculty professional development, energy management, greenhouse gas emissions reductions, green building, waste management, transportation, resilience, green workforce, and other aspects of sustainability that integrate the local community with multidisciplinary academic programs and are applicable to the private and government sectors.”; and

(B) by striking paragraph (3)(B) and inserting the following:

“(B) a nonprofit consortium, association, alliance, or collaboration operating in partnership with more than 1 institution of higher education.”;

(2) in subsection (c)—

(A) in paragraph (1)—

(i) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting “in alignment with local community needs” after “following purposes”;

(ii) in subparagraph (D)—

(I) by striking “establish” and inserting “scale established”;

(II) by striking “purchasing, toxics management,”; and

(III) by inserting “resilience, green workforce,” after “transportation,”; and

(iii) in subparagraph (G), by inserting “economics, law, political science,” after “business,”; and

(B) in paragraph (2)—

(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking “of” and inserting “relating to”; and

(ii) in subparagraph (C), by inserting “city and State governments,” after “business,”;

(3) in subsection (e), by striking “$250,000 or more than $2,000,000” and inserting “$200,000 or more than $500,000”; and

(4) in subsection (f), by striking “2009” and inserting “2020”.