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S. 737, Building Blocks of STEM Act (CBO Report for Congress)

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Congress 116th
Date Requested May 15, 2019
Requested By Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Date Sent May 24, 2019
Description:
S. 737 would modify several National Science Foundation (NSF) programs that provide grants to institutions of higher education and nonprofit organizations. Specifically, the bill would authorize the use of grants to study factors that contribute to female students’ participation in science, technology, engineering, and math education, and to develop and evaluate methods to increase female students’ participation in computer science. The bill also would direct the NSF to focus on early childhood education within the Discovery Research PreK-12 grant program. In recent years, the NSF has spent about $160 million annually on those programs. CBO expects that implementing the bill would not change the total amount of grants awarded. Using information from the NSF, and based on the costs of similar tasks, CBO estimates that any administrative costs incurred under S. 737 would be insignificant; such spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds.

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