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The bill names a program intended to help girls and underrepresented students but includes no substantive provisions or funding, offering symbolic recognition while leaving beneficiaries without concrete assistance and recipients uncertain about implementation.
No substantive programmatic changes or funding are enacted (therefore no new administrative burdens from implementing new requirements).
Students—particularly girls and underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities—receive no new funding, services, or concrete program changes because the bill only creates a program heading without substantive provisions.
Schools, universities, and educators face planning and grant-application uncertainty because a named Title IV program exists only as a heading with no guidance or implementation details.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Assigns a short title and inserts a placeholder Title IV provision for grants to prepare girls and underrepresented minorities in STEM, but contains no substantive language or funding.
Official title: To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide grants to local educational agencies to encourage girls and underrepresented minorities to pursue studies and careers in STEM fields.
Introduced December 3, 2025 by Joyce Beatty · Last progress December 3, 2025
Creates a short title, the "21st Century STEM for Girls and Underrepresented Minorities Act," and adds a placeholder provision to Title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to provide "Grants to prepare girls and underrepresented minorities." The provided text contains no substantive language, funding, definitions, or requirements, so it makes no operative change to existing law as supplied.