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H.R. 3175: Harnessing Opportunity to Maximize Expansion, Capture, and Organization of Minority Innovation in the Next Generation of Research Act of 2019

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H.R. 3175: Harnessing Opportunity to Maximize Expansion, Capture, and Organization of Minority Innovation in the Next Generation of Research Act of 2019

116th Congress · introduced 2019-06-10 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-06-10 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Harnessing Opportunity to Maximize Expansion, Capture, and Organization of Minority Innovation in the Next Generation of Research Act of 2019

Plain summary

Harnessing Opportunity to Maximize Expansion, Capture, and Organization of Minority Innovation in the Next Generation of Research Act of 2019 This bill establishes a commission to review the state of defense research at certain minority institutions of higher education. Such institutions are historically black colleges and universities and other higher education institutions at which at least 50% of the total student enrollment consists of students from ethnic groups that are underrepresented in the fields of science and engineering. The commission shall consider how to advance research capacity at these institutions to address U.S. national security and defense needs. The bill also directs the Department of Defense to require that the system that monitors or records contractor past performance for a grant or contract awarded to an institution includes incentives for the award of a subgrant or subcontract to such minority institutions.

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Harnessing Opportunity to Maximize Expansion, Capture, and Organization of Minority Innovation in the Next Generation of Research Act of 2019

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. [D-MD-4] · 10 cosponsors

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Michael R. Turner (R-OH), Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), Alma S. Adams (D-NC), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Ro Khanna (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr3175 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116