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Bills/119th Congress · House

H.R. 6366

Introduced

Boosting the Rural STEM Pipeline Act

Sponsor
DJosh Riley· New York
Introduced
December 2, 2025
Policy area
Science, Technology, Communications
Latest action
Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.December 2, 2025
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6366 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6366

To amend the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 and 
the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act to repeal 
cost-sharing with respect to the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship 
Program, and for other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 2, 2025

Mr. Riley of New York (for himself and Mr. Kennedy of Utah) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, 
Space, and Technology

_______________________________________________________________________

A BILL

To amend the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 and 
the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act to repeal 
cost-sharing with respect to the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship 
Program, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Boosting the Rural STEM Pipeline 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF COST-SHARING WITH RESPECT TO THE ROBERT NOYCE TEACHER 
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--Section 10A of the National Science Foundation 
Authorization Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 1862n-1a) is amended--
(1) by striking subsection (i); and
(2) by redesignating subsections (j) and (k) as subsections 
(i) and (j), respectively.
(b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 10320 of the Research and 
Development, Competition, and Innovation Act (42 U.S.C. 18998) is 
amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) by striking ``requirements'' and inserting 
``requirement'';
(B) by striking ``forthe'' and inserting ``for 
the''; and
(C) by striking ``and under'' and all that follows 
through ``are'' and inserting ``is''; and
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ``waivers'' each place 
it appears and inserting ``waiver''.
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