1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Native American Indian Education Act . 2. Purpose It is the purpose of this Act to ensure that Federal funding is provided to support and sustain the longstanding Federal mandate requiring colleges and States to waive, in certain circumstances, tuition charges for Native American Indian students they admit to an undergraduate college program, including the waiver of tuition charges for Native American Indian students who are not residents of the State in which the college is located. 3. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Native American-serving nontribal college institutions have a valuable supplemental role to that provided by tribally controlled community colleges in making available educational opportunities to Native American Indian students. (2) Some 4-year Native American-serving nontribal college institutions provide tuition-free education, with the support of the State in which they are located, as mandated by Federal statute, to hundreds of Native American Indian students in fulfillment of a condition under which the United States provided land and facilities for such colleges to a State or college. (3) The value of the Native student tuition waiver benefits contributed by these colleges and the States which support them today far exceeds the value of the original grant of land and facilities. (4) The ongoing financial burden of meeting this Federal mandate to provide tuition-free education to Native American Indian students is no longer equitably shared among the States and colleges because the mandate does not distinguish between such students who are residents of the State or who are residents of another State. (5) Native student tuition waiver benefits are now at risk of being terminated by severe budget constraints being experienced by these colleges and the States which support them. 4. State relief from Federal higher education mandate (a) In general Part A of title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1057 et seq.) is amended by