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<meta><dc:title>115 HR 255 ENR: To authorize the National Science Foundation to support entrepreneurial programs for women.</dc:title><dc:type>House Bill</dc:type><docNumber>255</docNumber><dc:creator>United States House of Representatives</dc:creator><dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>EN</dc:language><dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights><docStage>ENR</docStage>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>255</docNumber><congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="115">One Hundred Fifteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">AT THE FIRST SESSION</session><enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the third day of January, two thousand and seventeen</enrolledDateline></preface>
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<docTitle style="-uslm-lc:I665505" class="centered fontsize18">An Act</docTitle>
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<officialTitle style="-uslm-lc:I665511" class="centered fontsize8">To authorize the National Science Foundation to support entrepreneurial programs for women.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120"> This Act may be cited as the <shortTitle role="act">“Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act”</shortTitle>.</content>
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<section style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>FINDINGS.</heading>
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<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> The Congress finds that—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> women make up almost 50 percent of the workforce, but less than 25 percent of the workforce in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> women are less likely to focus on the STEM disciplines in undergraduate and graduate study;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> only 26 percent of women who do attain degrees in STEM fields work in STEM jobs;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"> (4)</num><content> there is an increasing demand for individuals with STEM degrees to extend their focus beyond the laboratory so they can be leaders in discovery commercialization;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"> (5)</num><content> studies have shown that technology and commercialization ventures are successful when women are in top management positions; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"> (6)</num><content> the National Science Foundation’s mission includes supporting women in STEM disciplines.</content>
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<section role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="3">SEC. 3. </num><heading>SUPPORTING WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURIAL PROGRAMS.</heading>
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<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I650120" class="indent0 fontsize10"> Section 33 of the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s1885a">42 U.S.C. 1885a</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="1"> (1)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> <quotedText>“and”</quotedText> at the end of paragraph (10);</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"> (2)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of paragraph (11) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> <quotedText>“; and”</quotedText>; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"> (3)</num><content> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:<quotedContent><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I650122" class="indent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"> “(12)</num><content> encourage its entrepreneurial programs to recruit and support women to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and into the commercial world.”</content>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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