Who it affects
- Department of Education
- Career and technical education facilities
- Rural secondary schools
- Secondary schools serving Native American students
In committeeEducationInternet
INSPIRES Act
S. 5317 · Senate bill · Introduced Aug. 6, 2026
The INSPIRES Act would establish grants to update career and technical education facilities and improve STEM facilities and internet at rural schools or schools serving Native American students.
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Where it stands
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How South Carolina voted
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What it would do
- The bill would require the Department of Education to establish grant programs.
- One program would fund updates, renovations, or repairs to career and technical education facilities.
- Another would fund improvements to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) facilities and support high-speed internet there.
- That program would cover secondary schools in rural areas or serving Native American students.
Written with AI from the official summary by Congress's research office.
How South Carolina voted
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Groups that lobbied on it and gave to SC's members
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Official record
Official title, sponsor and status
- Official title
- A bill to enable schools serving grades 6 through 12 that are located in rural areas or that serve Native American students to remodel or build new facilities to provide STEM classrooms and laboratories and support high-speed internet, to establish a program to support the modernization, renovation, or repair of career and technical education facilities, and for other purposes.
- Sponsor
- Sen. Schatz, Brian (D-HI)
- Introduced
- Aug. 6, 2026
- Cosponsors
- 1
- Committees
- Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
- Latest action
- Aug. 6, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Official summary from the Congressional Research Service
Inspiring New STEM Professionals by Investing in Renovation of Education Spaces Act or the INSPIRES Act This bill directs the Department of Education to establish grant programs (1) for the modernization, renovation, or repair of career- and technical-education facilities; and (2) to enable secondary schools that are located in rural areas or that serve Native American students to improve facilities that provide science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and to support high-speed internet in STEM facilities.
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