3.0.0 3102 2022-11-01T06:47:29Z 2022-11-01T06:47:29Z House HR 2019-06-05 116 [Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 94 (Wednesday, June 5, 2019)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. DeFAZIO:H.R. 3102.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (relating to the power tomake all laws necessary and proper for carrying out thepowers vested in Congress)[Page H4343]]]> hsju00 Judiciary Committee House Standing hsju05 Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Subcommittee Referred to 2019-06-28T17:17:04Z Referred to 2019-06-05T13:04:35Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2019-06-05T13:04:40Z hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee House Standing Referred to 2019-06-05T13:04:30Z POST GRAD Act 116 3418 HR 2019-06-21 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Related bill CRS What You Can Do For Your Country Act 116 1203 S 2019-04-11 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS If It's Good Enough For the Banks, It's Good Enough For Students Act 116 1845 S 2019-06-13 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS Adjunct Faculty Loan Fairness Act of 2019 116 2523 S 2019-09-19 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S5607) Related bill CRS Coronavirus Emergency Student Loan Refinancing Act 116 6397 HR 2020-03-26 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Related bill CRS What You Can Do For Your Country Act 116 2441 HR 2019-05-01 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Related bill CRS 2019-06-28 hsju05 Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. Committee 2019-06-05 Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2019-06-05 Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsju00 Judiciary Committee 2019-06-05 Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and the Workforce Committee 2019-06-05 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2019-06-05 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress D000191 Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4] PETER DEFAZIO D OR A. 4 N Education Administrative law and regulatory procedures Administrative remedies Bankruptcy Congressional oversight Consumer affairs Department of Education Education programs funding Employee benefits and pensions First responders and emergency personnel Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government information and archives Government lending and loan guarantees Government studies and investigations Government trust funds Health personnel Higher education Income tax deductions Income tax exclusion Interest, dividends, interest rates Law enforcement officers Lawyers and legal services Military personnel and dependents Public contracts and procurement Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations Student aid and college costs Tax administration and collection, taxpayers Teaching, teachers, curricula Temporary and part-time employment Wages and earnings Education 00 2019-06-05 Introduced in House 2021-01-28T20:43:02Z Helping Individuals Get a Higher Education while Reducing Education Debt Act or the HIGHER ED Act

This bill makes various changes to student loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs.

First, the bill authorizes graduate and professional students to receive subsidized Stafford Loans. These students have been ineligible to receive subsidized Stafford Loans since July 1, 2012.

Next, the bill allows student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy proceedings.

The bill also establishes refinancing programs for student loans. It allows certain borrowers to refinance their federal student loans down to lower interest rates, and it creates the Federal Direct Refinanced Private Loan to allow certain borrowers to refinance their private student loans.

Additionally, the bill revises the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, such as by (1) allowing certain part-time faculty to participate in the PSLF program; (2) allowing borrowers to receive, and retroactively applying, loan forgiveness on half of their total loans after satisfying 60 qualifying monthly payments; (3) revising the process for certification of employment; and (4) requiring the Department of Education (ED) to establish a dispute resolution process.

Further, the bill revises federal student loan repayment programs, including by (1) replacing existing student loan repayment plans with one income-based repayment plan and one standard 10-year repayment plan, and (2) allowing existing borrowers to lower their payments by switching to these new plans. It also establishes a process for ED to enroll a delinquent borrower in a new repayment plan.

The bill also requires ED to provide certain notifications to borrowers.

]]> HIGHER ED Act Display Title HIGHER ED Act Official Title as Introduced To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve loans, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Title(s) as Introduced HIGHER ED Act Introduced in House IH Short Title(s) as Introduced Helping Individuals Get a Higher Education while Reducing Education Debt Act Introduced in House IH Introduced in House 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116hr3102ih/xml/BILLS-116hr3102ih.xml 2019-06-28 Referred to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. 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.