[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S. 2767 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2767

  To provide for judicial discretion regarding suspensions of student 
 eligibility under section 484(r) of the Higher Education Act of 1965.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2008

   Mr. Dodd introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for judicial discretion regarding suspensions of student 
 eligibility under section 484(r) of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

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

SECTION 1. JUDICIAL DISCRETION FOR SUSPENSION OF ELIGIBILITY.

    Section 484(r) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1091(r)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``A student'' and 
        inserting ``Subject to paragraph (3), a student'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) Applicability.--This subsection shall only apply to a 
        student if the Federal or State court that convicted the 
        student of an offense described in paragraph (1) has ordered 
        that the student's eligibility for assistance under this title 
        be suspended in accordance with this subsection.''.
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