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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Mar 26, 2015
Innovate America Act
This bill requires the Department of Education (ED), in coordination with the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), to award grants, on a competitive basis, to state educational agencies to establish or expand the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, including computer science (STEM) secondary schools in the United States from approximately 100 to approximately 200.
In coordination with the NSF, ED shall:
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develop a database identifying existing STEM secondary schools, and
study how to improve retention rates of students in STEM programs at institutions of higher education.
The President must ensure that at least 15% of all federal funds available each fiscal year for undergraduate research opportunities at 2-year and 4-year degree-granting institutions of higher education are used to fund research opportunities for postsecondary students.
The NSF Partnerships for Innovation Program shall administer a Technology Commercialization Awards Pilot Program through which promising technology advances derived from NSF research grants must be eligible for funding.
The National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 is amended to extend the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to cover specifically informatics and computer science.
The Department of Commerce must establish a manufacturing assistance program for small and medium-sized domestic manufacturers to promote the manufacturing of goods in the United States and enable them to be competitive in global markets.
The Under Secretary for International Trade of Commerce shall report to Congress on the global competitiveness of 20 U.S. industries that export the most goods or services and the domestic and foreign regulatory and policy barriers to increasing their exports.
This bill also requires:
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to devise a strategy to reduce overall government printing costs over a 10-year period,
each federal department and agency to issue guidance on the appropriate use of award and incentive fees in their programs, and
return to the Treasury of any funds intended to be awarded as incentive fees to contractors that are not paid owing to contractor inability to meet established criteria in this Act.
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Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] · D–MN
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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