§14 [Education.]

Summary

Remove Hawaii from many places in federal education laws and change wording that mentions the "continental United States" so it now says "United States" in certain education programs. The change affects parts of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and several older education and vocational acts. It also raises two old teacher-allotment amounts from $27,000 to $28,500 and from $98,500 to $105,200, and it repeals the March 10, 1924 law that extended Smith-Hughes vocational benefits to Hawaii. The law lets the State of Hawaii receive $6,000,000. That money must be treated like proceeds from land-grant sales under the Act of July 2, 1862 (7 U.S.C. 301–308). Defined terms and special rules: "United States" will be treated in a temporary way for allotments until the Department of Commerce has a full year of per-capita income data for Alaska; at first it means the continental United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii). Once one full year of data is available, "United States" will mean the fifty States and the District of Columbia. Allotment ratios set after one- or two-year data are available may use one- or two-year data until three years of data exist. Several other laws are changed simply by removing "Hawaii" from their lists of States or Territories and by listing exceptions for places like Puerto Rico, Wake Island, Guam, and the Virgin Islands where local contribution rules work differently.