An amendment numbered 2 printed in House Report 112-75 to task the Director of National Intelligence with creating a pilot grant program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities to assist in creating and maintaining academic curricula that teach advanced critical foreign languages, and for study abroad programs. Amendment aims to help intelligence community meet strategic, diversity and critical language goals.

1. Adds SEC. 304. INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TRAINING PROGRAM after section 303

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   Inserted: SEC. 304. INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TRAINING PROGRAM.

   Inserted: Section 1024 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 441p) is amended--

   Inserted: (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking "subsection (b)" and inserting "subsections (b) and (c)";

   Inserted: (2) by redesignating subsections (c) through (f) as subsections (d) through (g), respectively;

   Inserted: (3) by inserting after subsection (b), the following:

   Inserted: "(c) Grant Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities.--(1) The Director may provide grants to historically black colleges and universities to provide programs of study in educational disciplines identified under subsection (a)(2) or described in paragraph (2).

   Inserted: "(2) A grant provided under paragraph (1) may be used to provide programs of study in the following educational disciplines:

   Inserted: "(A) Intermediate and advanced foreign languages deemed in the immediate interest of the intelligence community, including Farsi, Pashto, Middle Eastern, African, and South Asian dialects.

   Inserted: "(B) Study abroad programs and cultural immersion programs."; and

   Inserted: (4) in paragraph (g) (as so redesignated)--

   Inserted: (A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3);

   Inserted: (B) by inserting after paragraph (1), the following:

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   Inserted: "(2) Historically black college and university.--The term 'historically black college and university' has the meaning given the term 'part B institution' in section 322 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061)."; and

   Inserted: (C) by adding at the end the following:

   Inserted: "(4) Study abroad program.--The term 'study abroad program' means a program of study that--

   Inserted: "(A) takes places outside the geographical boundaries of the United States;

   Inserted: "(B) focuses on areas of the world that are critical to the national security interests of the United States and are generally underrepresented in study abroad programs at institutions of higher education, including Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East; and

   Inserted: "(C) is a credit or noncredit program.".

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   After section 303, insert the following:

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