[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4402 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4402

To amend section 479(c) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to clarify 
   when the Secretary shall consider an independent student without 
   dependents to have an expected family contribution equal to zero.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 15, 2017

  Ms. Judy Chu of California introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 479(c) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to clarify 
   when the Secretary shall consider an independent student without 
   dependents to have an expected family contribution equal to zero.

    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 ``Streamlining FAFSA Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. ZERO EXPECTED FAMILY CONTRIBUTION FOR SIMPLIFIED NEEDS TESTS.

    Section 479(c) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1087ss(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) in the case of an independent student without 
        dependents--
                    ``(A) the student (and the student's spouse, if 
                any)--
                            ``(i) files, or is eligible to file, a form 
                        described in subsection (b)(3);
                            ``(ii) certifies that the student (and the 
                        student's spouse, if any) is not required to 
                        file a Federal income tax return;
                            ``(iii) is a dislocated worker or has a 
                        spouse who is a dislocated worker; or
                            ``(iv) received benefits at some time 
                        during the previous 24-month period under a 
                        means-tested Federal benefit program as defined 
                        under subsection (d); and
                    ``(B) the sum of the adjusted gross income of the 
                student and spouse (if appropriate) is less than or 
                equal to $23,000.''.
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