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HR 5351 Cleared committee

Authorizes the National Science Foundation to fund scholarships, fellowships, research grants, and community college centers focused on artificial intelligence education and workforce training.

Official title: NSF AI Education Act of 2025

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced 15-SEP-2025
Referred 15-SEP-2025
Approved by committee 25-JUN-2026
Key points
  • Allows NSF to award scholarships and fellowships of up to five years to undergraduate and graduate students in AI-related degree programs, with priority for AI teaching, advanced manufacturing, and agriculture.
  • Directs NSF to establish up to eight Centers of AI Excellence at community colleges and area career and technical education schools, coordinated with the Commerce Department's Regional Technology Hubs program, subject to appropriations.
  • Authorizes NSF competitive grants for research on AI teaching models, tools, and materials for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 classrooms.
  • Requires NSF to report to Congress and the public on the scholarship and fellowship programs within seven years, and on the Centers after completing their evaluation.
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Official CRS summary

Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Introduced in House, 15-SEP-2025).

CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov
Committee referrals (1) Policy area

Science, Technology, Communications

Sponsor Vince Fong (R-CA) Cosponsors · 28
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