[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1701 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  2d Session
                                S. 1701

  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 in order to increase the 
     dependent care allowance used to calculate Pell Grant awards.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 3, 1998

 Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Jeffords, and Mr. Reed) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                       Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 in order to increase the 
     dependent care allowance used to calculate Pell Grant awards.

    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 ``Pell Grant Dependent Care Act of 
1998''.

SEC. 2. DEPENDENT CARE ALLOWANCE INCREASE.

    Section 401(b)(3)(B) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1070a(b)(3)(B)) is amended by striking ``$750'' and inserting 
``$1,500''.
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