3.0.0 3543 2022-02-09T01:11:03Z 2022-02-09T01:11:03Z Senate S 2020-03-19 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-03-19T19:40:13Z 2020-03-19 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2020-03-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT N Education Emergency medical services and trauma care First responders and emergency personnel Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government lending and loan guarantees Health personnel Higher education Infectious and parasitic diseases Law enforcement officers Lawyers and legal services Military personnel and dependents Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations Student aid and college costs Teaching, teachers, curricula Education 00 2020-03-19 Introduced in Senate 2020-04-13T16:31:51Z Public Service Loan Forgiveness Protection Act

This bill authorizes the Department of Education (ED) to waive monthly payments under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program during a qualifying emergency (e.g., a public health emergency).

Specifically, ED may waive the requirement that a borrower make a monthly payment under the PSLF program during a month in which there is a qualifying emergency in the borrower's state of employment.

The bill specifies that a borrower will not be disqualified from receiving loan cancellation under the PSLF program due to failure to make a payment during a qualifying emergency.

]]> Public Service Loan Forgiveness Protection Act Display Title Public Service Loan Forgiveness Protection Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Public Service Loan Forgiveness Protection Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the public service loan forgiveness program under the Higher Education Act of 1965 to waive the requirement that a borrower make a monthly payment during a month for which there is a qualifying emergency in the State in which the borrower is employed. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s3543is/xml/BILLS-116s3543is.xml 2020-03-19 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.