To establish a Science and Technology Scholarship Program to award scholarships to recruit and prepare students for careers in the National Weather Service and in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration marine research, atmospheric research, and satellite programs.
Latest action · Jun 23, 2005 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 91.
Progress
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- IntroducedMay 16, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Authorizes the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish a Science and Technology Scholarship Program to award scholarships to students at institutions of higher education to recruit and prepare them for careers in the National Weather Service and in NOAA marine research, atmospheric research, and satellite programs.
Sets forth provisions governing such Program.
Requires individuals to be selected to receive scholarships under this Act through a competitive process primarily based on academic merit, with consideration given to financial need and to the goal of promoting the participation of of certain individuals identified under the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act, including those from historically black colleges and universities and institutions serving a large proportion of minorities or other underrepresented populations.
Requires the Administrator to enter into contractual agreements with selected individuals under which such individuals, in exchange for receiving a scholarship, agree to serve as full-time employees of NOAA, for a 24-month period of obligated service for each academic year for which a scholarship is provided in positions needed by NOAA in marine research, atmospheric research, and satellite programs.
Instructs the Administrator to make publicly available a list of academic programs and fields of study for which scholarships may be utilized in marine research, atmospheric research, and satellite programs and to update such list as necessary.
Prohibits: (1) an individual from receiving a scholarship for more than four academic years, unless the Administrator grants a waiver; and (2) the amount of a scholarship from exceeding the cost of attendance.
Permits a scholarship to be used for tuition, fees, and other authorized uses as established by the Administrator by regulation.
Allows the Administrator to enter into a contractual agreement with an institution of higher education under which the amounts provided for a scholarship for tuition, fees, and other authorized expenses are paid directly to the institution with respect to which the scholarship is provided.
Sets forth penalties for specified breaches of scholarship agreements.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 23, 2005Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 91.
- Jun 23, 2005Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science. H. Rept. 109-151.
- May 16, 2005Introduced in House
- May 16, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Science.
- May 16, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Atmosphere
- Black colleges
- Department of Commerce
- Disabled
- Earth resources satellites
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Employment of the disabled
- Federal aid to education
- Federal employees
- Government Operations and Politics
- Higher education
- Labor and Employment
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Meteorological research
- Meteorological satellites
- Meteorology
- Minorities
- Minorities in government
- Minority education
- Oceanographic research
- Oceanography
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Recruiting of employees
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific education
- Social Welfare
- Space activities
- Weather forecasting
- Women
- Women in government
- Women's education
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 23, 2005Reported in House
- May 16, 2005Introduced in House
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