3.0.0 2732 2020-02-10T17:01:59Z 2020-02-10T17:01:59Z Senate S S 2008-03-07 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-03-07T17:12:28Z Student Veteran Financial Aid Fairness Act of 2008 110 5474 HR 2008-02-19 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Related bill CRS 2008-03-07 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2008-03-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001170 Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] Claire McCaskill D MO N Education Armed Forces and National Security Armed forces reserves Economics and Public Finance Federal aid to education Federally-guaranteed loans Government lending Higher education National Guard Scholarships Student aid Student loan funds Veterans' education Education 00 2008-03-07 Introduced in Senate 2008-04-08T21:25:33Z Student Veteran Financial Aid Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to treat current active National Guard and Reserve personnel who have completed their initial military training as independent students in analyses of their need for assistance under title IV (Student Assistance) of the Act.

Prohibits educational assistance provided under specified benefit programs for veterans and members of the Selected Reserve from being considered in such need analyses.

]]> Student Veteran Financial Aid Fairness Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Student Veteran Financial Aid Fairness Act of 2008 Display Title Student Veteran Financial Aid Fairness Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to expand the definition of independent student under the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include active members of the National Guard or Reserve forces of the United States and to prevent payments of educational assistance for veterans and members of the Selected Reserve from being offset in the calculation of financial aid under such Act. Introduced in Senate 2008-03-07T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2732is/xml/BILLS-110s2732is.xml 2008-03-07 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.