[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 990 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 990


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 28, 2007

     Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 AN ACT


 
To provide all low-income students with the same opportunity to receive 
  a Pell Grant by suspending the tuition sensitivity provision in the 
                          Pell Grant program.

    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 Equity Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. TUITION SENSITIVITY.

    Section 401(b)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1070a(b)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
    ``(C) This paragraph shall not apply to the determination of a 
student's basic grant for the 2007-2008 academic year.''.

SEC. 3. GUARANTEE AGENCY COLLECTION RETENTION.

    Clause (ii) of section 428(c)(6)(A) of the Higher Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1078(c)(6)(A)(ii)) is amended to read as follows:
                            ``(ii) an amount equal to 24 percent of 
                        such payments for use in accordance with 
                        section 422B, except that--
                                    ``(I) beginning October 1, 2003 and 
                                ending September 30, 2007, this 
                                subparagraph shall be applied by 
                                substituting `23 percent' for `24 
                                percent'; and
                                    ``(II) beginning October 1, 2007 
                                and ending September 30, 2008, this 
                                subparagraph shall be applied by 
                                substituting `22 percent' for `24 
                                percent'.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives February 27, 2007.

            Attest:

                                            LORRAINE C. MILLER,

                                                                 Clerk.