3.0.0 1947 2022-11-01T13:50:56Z 2022-11-01T13:50:56Z Senate S 2019-06-24 116 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-06-24T22:16:11Z Student Debt Cancellation Act of 2019 116 3448 HR 2019-06-24 Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, 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. Related bill CRS College for All Act of 2019 116 3472 HR 2019-06-25 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Related bill CRS 2019-06-24 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2019-06-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT N Education Academic performance and assessments Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Educational guidance Government lending and loan guarantees Higher education Indian social and development programs Interest, dividends, interest rates Minority education Student aid and college costs Teaching, teachers, curricula Vocational and technical education Education 00 2019-06-24 Introduced in Senate 2021-01-19T21:59:59Z College for All Act of 2019

This bill provides funding for (1) grants to eliminate tuition and required fees for eligible students at community colleges, public four-year institutions of higher education, and tribal colleges and universities; and (2) grants to eliminate or significantly reduce tuition and required fees for eligible students at private, nonprofit historically Black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions.

In addition, the bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to forgive the outstanding balance of interest and principal due on all Federal Family Education Loans, Federal Direct Loans, and Perkins Loans, including parent loans, consolidation loans, and certain grants treated as loans. Further, ED must purchase and forgive the outstanding balance of interest and principal due on private student loans.

]]> College for All Act of 2019 Display Title College for All Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced College for All Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced for portions of this bill Student Debt Cancellation Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure college for all. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1947is/xml/BILLS-116s1947is.xml 2019-06-24 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 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.