[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4262 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4262

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require that recipients of 
       Pell Grants be citizens or nationals of the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 20, 1994

    Mr. Darden (for himself, Mr. Deal, and Mr. Johnson of Georgia) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require that recipients of 
       Pell Grants be citizens or nationals of the United States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965.

    Section 401(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1070a(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``(defined in accordance 
        with section 484)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(4) For the purposes of this section, the term `eligible student' 
means a student who--
            ``(A) meets the requirements of paragraphs (1) through (4) 
        of section 484(a); and
            ``(B) is a citizen or national of the United States.''.

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