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The America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act of 2007 or America COMPETES Act [1][2][3] was signed by President Bush and became law on 9 August 2007. This was an Act, "To invest in innovation through research and development, and to improve the competitiveness of the United States."[4] On 29 May 2010, the U.S. House passed a measure to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act.


America COMPETES Act of 2007

The provisions of The America COMPETES of 2007 act covered a wide range of activities of a great number of federal agencies and offices including the Office of Science and Technology Policy (Title I), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Title II), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Title III), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, Title IV), the Department of Energy (Title V), and the National Science Foundation (Title VII).

Included in its provisions was the creation of the President's Council on Innovation and Competitiveness (Title I, Sec. 1006). It also called for a National Science and Technology Summit (Title I, Sec. 1001) and numerous reports on the state of innovation and competitiveness in the United States (e.g, Sec. 1002, 1005, 1006, 1007, 2006, 3004, 3005, 3011, 7010, 7014, 7016, 7032) and assessments of each unit's effective support of the Act's STEM education agenda (e.g., Sec. 2001.f, 3011)


... the creation of a Teacher Corps program (reference to legislation?), an increase in skilled workers visas and increased science funding (reference to legislation?).[5]

America COMPETES Act of 2010

The Act was reauthorized by the House on 28 May 2010 by a vote of 262-150[6][7].

See also

References

  1. ^ Legislative Highlights from the House Committee on Science and Technology, Rep. Bart Gordon, Chair.
  2. ^ History of the America COMPETES Act
  3. ^ Official Text and Related Information on the America COMPETES of 2007
  4. ^ H.R. 2272 as enacted into Public Law, 146 pages.
  5. ^ Fact Sheet: America Competes Act of 2007 from the White House web site
  6. ^ Official Text and Related Information on the America COMPETES Reauthorization Bill of 2010
  7. ^ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR5116:/
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