3.0.0 414 2023-01-11T13:34:27Z 2023-01-11T13:34:27Z House HR 2017-01-10 115 [Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 10, 2017)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mrs. LAWRENCE:H.R. 414.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, clause 3--The Congress shall havePower To . . regulate Commerce with foreign nations, andamong the several States, and with Indian Tribes;[Page H300]]]> hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing Referred to 2017-01-10T15:01:35Z 2017-01-10 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2017-01-10 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2017-01-10 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress L000581 Rep. Lawrence, Brenda L. [D-MI-14] Brenda Lawrence D MI L. 14 N T000474 Rep. Torres, Norma J. [D-CA-35] Norma Torres D CA J. 35 2017-05-17 False Education Education programs funding Higher education Student aid and college costs Teaching, teachers, curricula Education 00 2017-01-10 Introduced in House 2017-02-01T17:22:22Z Encourage our Educators Act

This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify provisions of the teacher loan forgiveness program.

Specifically, the legislation reduces from five to three years the period of service a full-time teacher must complete consecutively to be eligible for forgiveness under the Federal Family Education Loan or Direct Loan program. It also increases from $5,000 to $17,500 the amount of available loan forgiveness for an elementary or secondary school teacher in any subject. (Currently, forgiveness up to $17,500 is only available for a full-time secondary school math or science teacher or for a special education teacher.)

The bill eliminates the prohibition on counting the same qualifying service for both the teacher and the public service loan forgiveness programs.

]]> Encourage our Educators Act Display Title Encourage our Educators Act Official Title as Introduced To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow an individual to qualify for both teacher loan forgiveness and public service loan forgiveness, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Encourage our Educators Act Introduced in House 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115hr414ih/xml/BILLS-115hr414ih.xml 2017-01-10 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. 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.