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Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology Act of 2014

H.R. 4186 · 113th Congress · Mar 10, 2014 · Lineage

A BILL

To provide for investment in innovation through scientific research and development, to improve the competitiveness of the United States, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

(a)
Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology Act of 2014” or the “FIRST Act of 2014”.
(b)
Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 Definitions

In this Act—
(1)
the term STEM means the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; and
(2)
the term STEM education means education in the subjects of STEM, including other academic subjects that build on these disciplines such as computer science and other academic subjects that a State identifies as important to the workforce of the State.