House Education and Labor Committee Holds Markup of the Build Back Better Act

Outcome

Manager's Amendment.

Reallocates $3.2 billion of the Act from the Corporation for National and Community Service – also known as AmeriCorps – to an industry-recognized apprenticeship program.

Alters the Research and Development Infrastructure for Minority Serving Institutions Competitive Grant Program outlined in Section 20042 of the Act.

Allows funding allocated via Subtitle D of the Act – relating to universal child care for children aged zero to five – to be used at sectarian institutions.

Denies students from families with yearly incomes over $400,000 per year access to tuition-free community college programs appropriated via the Act.

Prevents institutions of higher education that hosts a Confucius Institute from receiving funds appropriated via the Act.

Bans the use of Pell Grants to support research conducted for or behalf of China or affiliated organizations.

Ensures that institutions of higher education, which receive funding via the Act, use a percentage of their federally-backed resources to support students and employees evacuated from Afghanistan on or after Sunday, August 15, 2021.

Directs the Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO) to conduct a study on the long-term impact of higher education spending appropriated via the Act on the cost of tuition and labor outcomes.

Requires institutions of higher education to repay Pell Grants in excess of $6,495 received by students who do not complete their course of study or do not transfer within one year of their initial withdrawal from a higher education program.

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Directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide an additional two cent reimbursement for each breakfast served via the school breakfast program.

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Prohibits institutions of higher education from receiving funds appropriated via the Act unless they provide the Department of Education (DE) a written assurance that they will uphold the principles of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Allows art and entertainment-based workforce development and employment opportunities to be eligible for Industry or Sector Partnership Grants.

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Permits the use of Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act funding appropriated via the Act to be used to attract, inform and bolster public awareness regarding skilled trade programs.

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Requires local educational agencies to make available a description of how in-person instruction will be made available to certain subgroups of the student population in order to be eligible for the Rebuild America’s School Grant Program appropriated via the Act.

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Excludes beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program from accessing the Pell Grant system.

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Strikes language relating to universal child care from the Act.

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Removes language relating to the Competitive Integrated Employment Transformation Grant Program from the Act.

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Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 and allows institutions of higher education – at the discretion of its financial aid administer – to prorate or limit the amount of loan any student may borrower per academic year.

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Strikes language related to increasing the maximum federal Pell Grant from the Act.

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Limits eligibility for tuition-free community college to households with incomes less than $400,000 per year.

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Directs local educational agencies benefiting from school infrastructure funding under the Act to certify that it does not restrict the lease of vacant school buildings to public charter schools.

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Rep. Fitzgerald (R-WI)

Prevents individuals convicted of sexual assault, trafficking or other related crimes from accessing tuition-free community college provided via the Act.

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Make ineligible institutions of higher education determined to be associated or affiliated with a foreign adversary from receiving funds appropriated under the Act.

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Provides all households – regardless of yearly income – access to universal child care benefits created via the Act.

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Replaces references to “tuition-free” community college and “free” child care with “federal-taxpayer funded” community college and child care throughout the Act.

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Strikes language relating to tuition-free community college from the Act.

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Prohibits local educational agencies receiving resources via the Act from offering students under the age of consent a COVID-19 vaccine without the express permission of a parent or guardian.

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Prohibits public community colleges receiving resources via the Act from administering abortion-related health care at a student-based service site. 

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Makes technical changes to the Act to ensure that program administration funds for workforce development programs are available for additional workforce development programs by the Department of Labor (DOL).

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