[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3668 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3668

    To provide the Secretary of Education with waiver authority for 
students who are eligible for Federal student grant assistance who are 
                adversely affected by a major disaster.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 7, 2005

 Mr. Jindal (for himself, Mr. Boehner, Mr. McKeon, Mr. Wilson of South 
Carolina, Mr. Porter, Mr. Boustany, Mr. Hinojosa, Mr. Wu, Mrs. Davis of 
 California, Ms. McCollum of Minnesota, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Van 
Hollen, Mr. Baker, Mr. McCrery, Mr. Bachus, and Mr. Wicker) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                           and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide the Secretary of Education with waiver authority for 
students who are eligible for Federal student grant assistance who are 
                adversely affected by a major disaster.

    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 ``Student Grant Hurricane and Disaster 
Relief Act''.

SEC. 2. WAIVERS OF STUDENT GRANT ASSISTANCE REPAYMENT BY STUDENTS 
              AFFECTED BY DISASTERS.

    Section 484B(b)(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1091b(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(E) Waivers of grant assistance repayment by 
                students affected by disasters.--In addition to the 
                waivers authorized by subparagraph (D), the Secretary 
                may waive the amounts that students are required to 
                return under this section with respect to any other 
                grant assistance under this title if the withdrawals on 
                which the returns are based are withdrawals by 
                students--
                            ``(i) who were residing in, employed in, or 
                        attending an institution of higher education 
                        that is located in an area in which the 
                        President has declared that a major disaster 
                        exists, in accordance with section 401 of the 
                        Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
                        Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170);
                            ``(ii) whose attendance was interrupted 
                        because of the impact of the disaster on the 
                        student or the institution; and
                            ``(iii) whose withdrawal ended within the 
                        academic year during which the designation 
                        occurred or during the next succeeding academic 
                        year.''.
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