Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Minority-Serving Institution Fairness Act”.
Minority-Serving Institution Fairness Act
A BILL
To amend title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to strengthen minority-serving institutions.
Sec. 2 Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions
Section 317(d)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059d(d)(3)) is amended by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:
“(A) Concurrent funding—No Alaskan Native-serving institution or Native Hawaiian-serving institution that receives funds under this section shall concurrently receive funds under section 316 or 318, or part B.”
Sec. 3 Native American-Serving, Nontribal Institutions
Section 319(d)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059f(d)(3)) is amended by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:
“(A) Concurrent funding—No Native American-serving, nontribal institution that receives funds under this section shall concurrently receive funds under section 316 or 318, or part B.”
Sec. 4 Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions
Section 320(d)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059g(d)(3)) is amended by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:
“(A) Concurrent funding—No Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution that receives funds under this section shall concurrently receive funds under section 316 or 318, or part B.”
Sec. 5 Hispanic-serving institutions
Section 505 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101d) is amended by striking “part A” and inserting “section 316, section 318,”.
Sec. 6 Limitations on concurrent receipt of program funds
Limitations on concurrent receipt of program funds— Part A of title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1057 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“321. Limitation on concurrent receipt of program funds
“Subject to the availability of applications, not less than 35 percent of the funding awarded under each of section 317, 319, or 320, or part A of title V, for a fiscal year, shall be awarded to institutions that are not eligible for funds concurrently under more than one program under section 317, 319, or 320, or part A of title V, for such fiscal year.”
Investment in historically Black colleges and universities and other minority-Serving institutions— Section 371 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1067q) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(d) Limitations on concurrent receipt of program funds—An eligible institution described in paragraph (2), (4), (6), or (7) of subsection (a) may receive more than one grant under this section for a fiscal year, if, subject to availability of applications, not less than 35 percent of the funding awarded under this section to institutions described in each of such paragraphs is awarded to institutions that are not eligible for funds concurrently under more than one program under this section for such fiscal year.”
Duration of grant— Section 313(b) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059(b)) is amended—
by inserting “a section under” after “awarding grants under”; and
by inserting “the same section under” after “receiving a grant under”.