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Title 20 — Education

Part R · Chapter 28 — Higher Education Resources and Student Assistance

§ 1161r. Campus-based digital theft prevention

Statutory text

(a)

Program authority

From the amounts appropriated under subsection (d), the Secretary may make grants to institutions of higher education, or consortia of such institutions, and enter into contracts with such institutions, consortia, and other organizations, to develop, implement, operate, improve, and disseminate programs of prevention, education, and cost-effective technological solutions, to reduce and eliminate the illegal downloading and distribution of intellectual property. Such grants or contracts may also be used for the support of higher education centers that will provide training, technical assistance, evaluation, dissemination, and associated services and assistance to the higher education community as determined by the Secretary and institutions of higher education.

(b)

Awards

Grants and contracts shall be awarded under this section on a competitive basis.

(c)

Applications

An institution of higher education or a consortium of such institutions that desires to receive a grant or contract under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing or accompanied by such information as the Secretary may reasonably require by regulation.

(d)

Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009 and each of the five succeeding fiscal years.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Higher Education Act of 1965

    Pub. L. 89–329 title VIII § 871 · 79 Stat. 1219

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 1161r

    (Pub. L. 89–329, title VIII, § 871, as added Pub. L. 110–315, title VIII, § 801, Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3425.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 89–329, title VIII, § 871, as added Pub. L. 110–315, title VIII, § 801, Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3425.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 89–329, title VIII, § 871, as added Pub. L. 110–315, title VIII, § 801, , 122 Stat. 3425.)

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