98 STAT. 1274
PUBLIC LAW 98-377—AUG. 11, 1984 DEFINITION
20 USC 3962.
SEC. 202. As used in this title, the term "junior or community college" means an institution of higher education— (1) that admits as regular students individuals who are beyond the age of compulsory school attendance in the State in which the institution is located and who have the ability to benefit from the training offered by the institution; (2) that does not provide an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's degree (or an equivalent degree); and (3) that— (A) provides an educational program of not less than two years that is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree, or (B) offers a two-year program designed to prepare a student to work as a technician or at the semiprofessional level in engineering, scientific, or other technological fields requiring the understanding and application of basic engineering, scientific, or mathematical principles of knowledge. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED
Grants. 20 USC 3963.
Appropriations authorization.
SEC. 203. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to States and to make discretionary grants, in accordance with the provisions of this title, for strengthening the skills of teachers and instruction in mathematics, science, computer learning, and foreign languages. (b) There are authorized to be appropriated $350,000,000 for the fiscal year 1984, and $400,000,000 for the fiscal year 1985 to carry out the provisions of this title. ALLOTMENT TO STATES
20 USC 3964.
SEC. 204. (a)(1) From 90 per centum of the amount appropriated to carry out this title for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to such 90 per centum as the number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, in the State bears to the number of such children in all States, except that no State shall receive less than one-half of 1 per centum of the amount available under this subsection in any fiscal year. (2) The Secretary shall reserve the remaining 10 per centum to carry out section 212, relating to discretionary grants of national significance. (3) For the purpose of this subsection, the term "State" does not include Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. (4) The number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, in the State and in all States shall be determined by the Secretary on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data available to him. (b) The amount of any State's allotment under subsection (a) for any fiscal year to carry out this title which the Secretary determines will not be required for that fiscal year to carry out this title shall be available for reallotment from time to time, on such dates during that year as the Secretary may fix, to other States in proportion to the original allotments to those States under subsection (a) for that year but with such proportionate amount for any of those other States being reduced to the extent it exceeds the sum the Secretary
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