[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2677 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2677

 To require the Secretary of Education to verify that individuals have 
made a commitment to serve in the Armed Forces or in public service, or 
 otherwise are a borrower on an eligible loan which has been submitted 
  to a guaranty agency for default aversion or is already in default, 
          before such individuals obtain a consolidation loan.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2015

  Mr. Salmon (for himself, Mr. Engel, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Hastings, Mr. 
  Hunter, Mr. Payne, and Mr. Walberg) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Education to verify that individuals have 
made a commitment to serve in the Armed Forces or in public service, or 
 otherwise are a borrower on an eligible loan which has been submitted 
  to a guaranty agency for default aversion or is already in default, 
          before such individuals obtain a consolidation loan.

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

SECTION 1. REQUIRED VERIFICATION.

    Section 428C of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1078-3) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(3)(B)(i)(V)(aa), by inserting before 
        the semicolon at the end the following: ``in a case in which 
        the Secretary verifies that the individual is currently 
        eligible for income contingent repayment or income-based 
        repayment and that the loan(s) in question have been submitted 
        to the guaranty agency for default aversion or if the loan is 
        already in default'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(3)(B)(i)(V)(bb), by inserting before 
        the semicolon the following: ``in a case in which the Secretary 
        verifies with documentation that the individual is, at the time 
        of the application, employed in a public service job, as that 
        term is defined in section 455(m)(3)'';
            (3) in subsection (a)(3)(B)(i)(V)(cc), by inserting before 
        the period at the end the following: ``in a case in which the 
        Secretary verifies that the individual is a member of a regular 
        or reserve component of the Armed Forces by contacting the 
        Secretary of the military department or the Secretary of 
        Homeland Security, as the case may be, having jurisdiction over 
        the Armed Force in which the individual claims to be a 
        member''; and
            (4) in subsection (b)(5), by inserting after the second 
        sentence the following: ``In addition, the Secretary shall not 
        offer any loans offered under this paragraph unless the 
        Secretary has received verification described in subsection 
        (a)(3)(B)(i)(V) (aa)-(cc), as applicable.''.
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