To establish a grant program for stipends to assist in the cost of compensation paid by employers to certain recent college graduates and to provide funding for their further education in subjects relating to mathematics, science, engineering, and technology.

United States115th CongressHR-56House of Representatives
Updated: Jan 3, 2017

Summary

America Realizing the Informational Skills and Initiative of New Graduates Act of 2017 or America RISING Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services to jointly establish a grant program to defray the costs paid by: (1) employers to compensate recent college graduates; and (2) recent college graduates to enroll in postsecondary education courses in mathematics, science, engineering, or technology.

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  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

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