 
      CHAPTER 28--HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE
 
                    SUBCHAPTER IV--STUDENT ASSISTANCE
 
   Part A--Grants to Students in Attendance at Institutions of Higher 
                                Education
 
     subpart 3--federal supplemental educational opportunity grants
 
Sec. 1070b. Purpose; appropriations authorized


(a) Purpose of subpart

    It is the purpose of this subpart to provide, through institutions 
of higher education, supplemental grants to assist in making available 
the benefits of postsecondary education to qualified students who 
demonstrate financial need in accordance with the provisions of part E 
of this subchapter.

(b) Authorization of appropriations

    (1) For the purpose of enabling the Secretary to make payments to 
institutions of higher education which have made agreements with the 
Secretary in accordance with section 1070b-2(a) of this title, for use 
by such institutions for payments to undergraduate students of 
supplemental grants awarded to them under this subpart, there are 
authorized to be appropriated $675,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 and such 
sums as may be necessary for the 4 succeeding fiscal years.
    (2) Sums appropriated pursuant to this subsection for any fiscal 
year shall be available for payments to institutions until the end of 
the second fiscal year succeeding the fiscal year for which such sums 
were appropriated.

(Pub. L. 89-329, title IV, Sec. 413A, as added Pub. L. 99-498, title IV, 
Sec. 401(a), Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1328; amended Pub. L. 102-325, 
title IV, Sec. 403(b), July 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 505; Pub. L. 105-244, 
title IV, Sec. 406(a), Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1664.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 1070b, Pub. L. 89-329, title IV, Sec. 413A, as added 
Pub. L. 92-318, title I, Sec. 131(b)(1), June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 251; 
amended Pub. L. 94-482, title I, Sec. 122(a), Oct. 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 
2094; Pub. L. 96-49, Sec. 5(a)(3), Aug. 13, 1979, 93 Stat. 352; Pub. L. 
96-374, title IV, Sec. 403(a), (b), title XIII, Sec. 1391(a)(1), Oct. 3, 
1980, 94 Stat. 1404, 1405, 1503, related to program of supplemental 
educational opportunity grants purpose, authorization of appropriations, 
and initial year payment provisions, prior to the general revision of 
this part by Pub. L. 99-498.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 105-244 substituted ``1999'' for 
``1993''.
    1992--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102-325 amended subsec. (b) generally, 
substituting present provisions for provisions authorizing appropriation 
of $490,000,000 for fiscal year 1987 and such sums as necessary for 4 
succeeding fiscal years.


                    Effective Date of 1998 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 105-244 effective Oct. 1, 1998, except as 
otherwise provided in Pub. L. 105-244, see section 3 of Pub. L. 105-244, 
set out as a note under section 1001 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1070b-3 of this title.
