[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2966 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2966

  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to suspend, for a certain 
 period, the use of adverse credit history in determining eligibility 
                     for Federal Direct PLUS Loans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 1, 2013

    Mr. Richmond (for himself, Ms. Fudge, and Ms. Brown of Florida) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to suspend, for a certain 
 period, the use of adverse credit history in determining eligibility 
                     for Federal Direct PLUS Loans.

    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 ``PLUS Loan Accessibility Act''.

SEC. 2. PROVISION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR FEDERAL DIRECT PLUS LOANS.

    Section 428B(a)(1)(A) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1078-2(a)(1)(A)) is amended by adding before the semicolon the 
following: ``, except that this subparagraph shall not be enforced with 
respect to Federal Direct PLUS Loans during the period beginning on the 
date of enactment of the PLUS Loan Accessibility Act and ending on the 
date on which the Secretary implements the final rules on the proposed 
rules developed by the negotiated rulemaking committee established 
pursuant to the announcement of intent to establish a negotiated 
rulemaking committee published by the Department on May 1, 2012 (77 
Fed. Reg. 25658 et seq.)''.
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