US Congress House Bill 889 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21)
Status: Introduced on March 2 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-03-09 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Research and Science Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Act of 2011 - Defines a "federal science agency" as any federal agency responsible for at least 2% of total federal research and development funding to institutions of higher education (IHEs), according to National Science Foundation (NSF) data. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to develop a policy for federal science agencies to carry out a program of workshops that educate specified federally funded researchers about methods that minimize the effects of gender bias in the evaluation of federal research grants and in the related academic advancement of the recipients of these grants. Authorizes federal science agencies to make grants to eligible organizations to carry out workshops. Requires OSTP to support at least one workshop every two years among the federal science agencies in the major science and engineering disciplines. Requires the Director to develop a policy to extend research grant support and provide interim technical support for federally funded researchers who are caregivers. Requires federal science agencies to collect specified standardized annual data for all applications for research and development grants to IHEs and to submit the data collected to the NSF. Requires NSF to report statistical summary data on the demographics of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) faculty at IHEs in the United States and report to Congress on how NSF will gather such data.

Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Act of 2011

Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]	Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]	Rep. Donna Edwards [D-MD]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Rep. Ruben Hinojosa [D-TX]	Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ]
Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Michael Michaud [D-ME]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Silvestre Reyes [D-TX]	Rep. Allyson Schwartz [D-PA]	Rep. Fortney Stark [D-CA]
Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]
Rep. David Wu [D-OR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
2011-03-02	House	Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/889/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr889/BILLS-112hr889ih.pdf