Senate Education Subcommittee Adds 3-Year NDEA Extension To Vocational Education Bill

Sep 21, 2026

Summarizes Senate actions and legislative provisions extending National Defense Education Act (NDEA) support through a three-year program. Details funding levels for construction and rehabilitation of teaching facilities, plus loan assistance for medical, dental, osteopathic, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, nursing, and professional health students. Reports key vote outcomes on amendments and discusses related higher education measures, including matching grants for vocational education, impacted-area aid extensions, and expanded public library funding. Mentions subcommittee chair Wayne Morse’s installment-by-installment approach and the House’s parallel plans to reopen hearings on related bills.

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Senate Education SubcommitteeAdds 3-Year NDEA ExtensionTo Vocational Education Bill

Senate passes medical education bill and sends to the President

NDEA three-year extension provisions

Vocational education, impacted areas, and libraries funding

House establishes 9-member select committee to investigate federal research programs

on final passage was 71 to 9. # Senate Education SubcommitteeAdds 3-Year NDEA ExtensionTo Vocational Education Bill Volume XII,Number 31 Senate Passes MedicalEducation Bill;MeasureNow Goes to President Higher EducationandNational Affairs American Council on Education o1785 Massachusetts Avenue,N.W.,Washington 6,D.C. After defeating amendment attempts by close votes,the Senate onSeptember 12 passed HR 12,the Health Professions EducationalAssistance Act,and sent it to the President exactly as it had beenapproved by the House(see Bulletin,Vol.XⅡ,No.15).The vote A 39-to-37 vote defeated an attempt to add an anti-discrimination provision to the billand a 43-to-39 vote defeated an amendment to provide forgiveness of up to 50 percent of anyloan for a physician or dentist who agrees to practice in an area short of doctors.An attemptto eliminate the loan provision entirely was defeated,63 to 18. As sent to the President,HR 12 authorizes a three-year program of $175 million ingrants for the construction,rehabilitation,or replacement of teaching facilities forphysicians,dentists,osteopaths,pharmacists,optometrists,podiatrists,nurses,or pro-fessional health personnel and $30.7 million in loans for medical,dental,and osteopathicstudents over a three-year period,plus such sums as may be necessary over the three suc-ceeding fiscal years to enable students who have received a loan to continue or completetheir education. three-year extension of the impacted areas laws,and a three-year program of aid for publiccommunity libraries. Senator Wayne Morse(D-Ore.),chairman of the subcommittee,said that the amendedHR 4955 was the first of what he called an "installment-by-installment"approach to the Ad-ministration's proposed comprehensive National Education Improvement Act.He said thatthe college facilities bill,approved by the House as HR 6143,would be the next installment.However,he indicated that the Senate subcommittee version of the higher education bill woulddiffer from HR 6143 in that it would provide construction grants to colleges for use only incertain categories of facilities,presumably for libraries,and science,mathematics,engineer-ing,and possibly foreign language classrooms and laboratories. As approved by the subcommittee,the amended HR 4955 provides: NDEA--Three-year extension of all titles of the act which now is scheduled to expireJuly 1,1964.The programs now cost about $225 million annually and include student loans andfellowships,teacher institutes and grants for building and equipping classrooms for instruc-tion in science,mathematics,and modern foreign languages.The Senate subcommittee Special House Unit to InvestigateGovernment Research Programs* * * Maryland Suit Seeks to Bar StateAid to Church-Related Colleges September 13,1963 The Senate Education Subcommittee on September 11 approvedthe expansion of HR 4955,the House-passed vocational edu-cation bill,into a "junior omnibus education bill"including athree-year extension of the National Defense Education Act,a # House Establishes 9-MemberSelect Committee to InvestigateFederal Research Programs approved raising the student loan ceiling from $90 million to $125 million this year and $135,$145,and $150 million in the next three years.It increased from $250,000 to $800,000 theamount of loan assistance which could go to any one educational institution.In the House,the Special Subcommittee on Education now plans to reopen hearings on September 17 onHR 6061 which would extend NDEA for two years,increase the amount of student loan fundsavailable to $135 million a year,and eliminate the annual institutional ceiling (see Bulletin,Vol.XII,No.17). Vocational Education--A four-year program of matching grants to the states to expandthe current $57 million-a-year program which now is confined principally to agricultural andhome economics training.The Senate subcommittee approved an additional total of $702million over four years--$108 million this yea

FAQs

What major action did the Senate take regarding HR 12?

The Senate passed HR 12 on September 12 and sent it to the President as approved by the House, authorizing a three-year program of grants and loans for medical education and students.

What does HR 12 authorize for students and teaching facilities?

HR 12 authorizes $175 million in grants over three years for construction, rehabilitation, or replacement of teaching facilities, and $30.7 million in loans for medical, dental, and osteopathic students, with additional sums to help students continue or complete education in the next three fiscal years.

How did the House plan to handle related NDEA legislation after committee approval?

The House’s Special Subcommittee on Education planned to reopen hearings on September 17 on HR 6061, which would extend NDEA for two years, increase annual student loan funds, and eliminate the annual institutional ceiling.

Sep 21, 2026

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