[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3061 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3061

To prohibit the use of stale cohort default data in the termination of 
  student assistance eligibility for institutions of higher education.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 13, 1997

  Mr. Klink (for himself and Mr. Traficant) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
                               Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the use of stale cohort default data in the termination of 
  student assistance eligibility for institutions of higher education.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Education Data Modernization Act of 
1997''.

SEC. 2. USE OF STALE COHORT DEFAULT DATA PROHIBITED.

    Section 435(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1085(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Use of stale data prohibited.--On and after October 
        1, 1997, the Secretary may not make effective any termination 
        of eligibility pursuant to this subsection if such termination 
        is based on using fiscal year 1992 as one of the three most 
        recent years for which data are available for purposes of 
        paragraph (2).''.
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