3.0.0 1429 2023-01-13T04:50:25Z 2023-01-13T04:50:25Z Senate S S 2005-07-20 109 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-07-20T18:54:09Z 2005-07-20 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8560-8562) IntroReferral 2005-07-20 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8560) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2005-07-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA N D000294 Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH] MICHAEL DEWINE R OH 2005-07-20 True K000148 Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] JOHN KERRY D MA FORBES 2005-07-25 False L000550 Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] MARY LANDRIEU D LA 2005-07-25 False D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2005-07-27 False Education Academic performance Arts, Culture, Religion Child abuse Child welfare Community organization Counseling Crime and Law Enforcement Economics and Public Finance Educational counseling Electronic data interchange Elementary and secondary education Families Federal aid to education Foster home care Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Higher education Homeless Housing and Community Development Mentoring Runaway children Science, Technology, Communications Secondary education Social Welfare Student aid Student loan funds Education 00 2005-07-20 Introduced in Senate 2005-08-29T21:30:16Z Improving Access to Education for Students Who Are Homeless or in Foster Care Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to include as independent students, for purposes of student financial assistance need analysis, students who: (1) are (or were until age 18) in foster care; or (2) are homeless and unaccompanied. Revises the dependency override process, and applications for independence determinations for students in special circumstances.

Includes students who are homeless or in foster care as eligible for certain HEA early outreach and student services programs.

Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements, to partnerships of specified entities, for demonstration projects for highly mobile students to increase their secondary school success and graduation rate and their higher education enrollment and success.

]]> Improving Access to Education for Students Who Are Homeless or in Foster Care Act Display Title Improving Access to Education for Students Who Are Homeless or in Foster Care Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to assist homeless students in obtaining postsecondary education, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Improving Access to Education for Students Who Are Homeless or in Foster Care Act Introduced in Senate 2005-07-20T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s1429is/xml/BILLS-109s1429is.xml 2005-07-20 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8560-8562) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.