---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19012"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19012"
heading: "NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Initiative"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19012"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part C — Broadening Participation"
---

# §19012. NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Initiative

- (a) **In general—** The [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall make awards, on a competitive basis, to institutions of higher education or [non-profit organizations](/usc/42/18901.md?p=21) (or consortia of such institutions or organizations) to carry out a comprehensive national initiative to facilitate the development of networks and partnerships to build on and scale up effective [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19) in broadening participation in [STEM](/usc/42/18901.md?p=27) studies and careers of groups historically underrepresented in such studies and careers.
- (b) **Change of name—** The initiative under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be known as the “Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science Initiative” or the “Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Initiative”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10323, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1539.)