S.Amdt. 612

SA 612. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense,
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal
year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the end of subtitle E of title V, add the following:

SEC. ___. LIEUTENANT HENRY OSSIAN FLIPPER LEADER SHIP
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.

(a) Authority.--The Secretary of the Army shall carry out a
program to be known as the ``Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper
Leadership Scholarship Program'' under which the Secretary
may provide financial assistance, in accordance with this
section, to a person--

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(1) who is pursuing a recognized postsecondary credential
at a minority-serving institution; and
(2) who enters into an agreement with the Secretary as
described in subsection (b).
(b) Service Agreement for Scholarship Recipients.--
(1) In general.--To receive financial assistance under this
section--
(A) a member of the Army shall enter into an agreement to
serve on active duty in the Army for the period of obligated
service determined under paragraph (2); and
(B) a person who is not a member of the Army shall enter
into an agreement to enlist or accept a commission in the
Army and to serve on active duty in Army for the period of
obligated service determined under paragraph (2).
(2) Period of obligated service.--The period of obligated
service for a recipient of financial assistance under this
section shall be the period determined by the Secretary of
Army as being appropriate to obtain adequate service in
exchange for the financial assistance. The period of service
required of a recipient shall be not less than the period
equal to three-fourths of the total period of pursuit of a
credential for which the Secretary agrees to provide the
recipient with financial assistance under this section. The
period of obligated service is in addition to any other
period for which the recipient is obligated to serve on
active duty.
(3) Terms of agreement.--An agreement entered into under
this section by a person pursuing a recognized postsecondary
credential shall include the following terms:
(A) Service start date.--The period of obligated service
will begin on a date after the award of the credential, as
determined by the Secretary of the Army.
(B) Academic progress.--The person will maintain
satisfactory academic progress, as determined by the
Secretary, and that failure to maintain such progress
constitutes grounds for termination of the financial
assistance for the person under this section.
(C) Other terms.--Any other terms and conditions that the
Secretary determines to be appropriate for carrying out this
section.
(c) Amount of Assistance.--The amount of the financial
assistance provided for a person under this section shall be
the amount determined by the Secretary of the Army as being
necessary to pay the person's cost of attendance at the
minority-serving institution.
(d) Use of Assistance for Support of Internships.--The
financial assistance for a person under this section may also
be provided to support internship activities of the person at
the Department of Defense in periods between the academic
years leading to the credential for which assistance is
provided the person under this section.
(e) Repayment for Period of Unserved Obligated Service.--A
member of the Army who does not complete the period of active
duty specified in the service agreement under subsection (b)
shall be subject to the repayment provisions of section
303a(e) of title 37, United States Code.
(f) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall submit
to the congressional defense committees a report that
includes--
(1) an assessment of the progress of the Secretary in
carrying out the scholarship program under this section;
(2) the number of scholarships that the Secretary intends
to award in the academic year beginning after the date of the
submission of the report; and
(3) a description of the Secretary's efforts to promote the
scholarship program at minority-serving institutions.
(g) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Cost of attendance.--The term ``cost of attendance''
has the meaning given the term in section 472 of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 (20 19 U.S.C. 1087ll).
(2) Minority-serving institution.--The term ``minority-
serving institution'' means an institution of higher
education described in section 371(a) of the Higher Education
Act of 1965 (20 24 U.S.C. 1067q(a)).
(3) Recognized postsecondary credential.--The term
``recognized postsecondary credential'' has the meaning given
the term in section 3 of the Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act (29 5 U.S.C. 3102).
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