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HR 6535 117th Congress House

Empowering STEM Discovery Act

Official title: To waive the cost-sharing requirements for certain STEM programs, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 1, 2022 See on congress.gov
Science, Technology, Communications
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Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Feb 1, 2022
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 Latest action February 1, 2022

Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Empowering STEM Discovery Act

This bill waives for a five-year period the cost-sharing requirements for the Major Research Instrumentation Program and for National Science Foundation (NSF) teaching fellowships administered within the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.

The NSF shall submit to Congress an assessment, that includes feedback from the research community, of the impacts of the waivers provided pursuant to this bill.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6535: Empowering STEM Discovery Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-6535/
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"H.R. 6535: Empowering STEM Discovery Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-6535/.
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H.R. 6535, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-6535/.
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