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H.R. 5477 109th Congress House

Innovations for our Nation's Vital Educational Needs for Technology Act

Official title: To provide for the establishment at the National Science Foundation of a program to promote and assist the teaching of inventiveness and innovation.

Introduced: May 25, 2006 See on congress.gov
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Jul 14, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Jul 14, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Jun 13, 2006
Referred to the Subcommittee on Research.
May 25, 2006
Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 25, 2006
Introduced in House
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 Latest action July 14, 2006

Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Innovations for our Nation's Vital Educational Needs for Technology Act - Directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) to: (1) establish a competitive grant program, with the goal of developing, and making available for use at the elementary, secondary, and undergraduate levels within two years after enactment of this Act, curriculum tools that will help foster inventiveness; and (2) develop and implement measures for the dissemination of such curriculum tools.

Directs the NSF to: (1) implement a public awareness and outreach campaign relating to invention and inventiveness; and (2) establish engineering and social science research programs on the process of invention and the teaching of inventiveness.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5477: Innovations for our Nation's Vital Educational Needs for Technology Act. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-5477/
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"H.R. 5477: Innovations for our Nation's Vital Educational Needs for Technology Act." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-5477/.
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