[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4089 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4089

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize certain students 
      to retain financial aid eligibility while completing a drug 
                        rehabilitation program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2019

Mr. Foster (for himself, Ms. Moore, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Norton, 
 and Mr. Moulton) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize certain students 
      to retain financial aid eligibility while completing a drug 
                        rehabilitation 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 ``Second Chance for Students Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN CONVICTIONS.

    Section 484(r) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1091(r)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4);
            (2) in paragraph (1), by striking ``A student'' and 
        inserting ``Subject to paragraph (3), a student''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Exception.--A student whose eligibility has been 
        suspended under paragraph (1), or whose eligibility, in the 
        absence of this paragraph, would have been suspended under 
        paragraph (1), due to a conviction of an offense involving the 
        possession of marijuana, without the intent to distribute, may 
        resume or retain eligibility before the end of the 
        ineligibility period (or the period that would have been the 
        ineligibility period) determined under such paragraph during 
        the period of completion of a drug rehabilitation program 
        described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (2), except 
        that such period of completion shall not exceed 6 months.''.
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