[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4567 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4567

 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of 
Education to translate the FAFSA into foreign languages, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2019

  Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. 
 Roybal-Allard, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Soto, Mr. Espaillat, and Ms. Jackson 
Lee) 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 require the Secretary of 
Education to translate the FAFSA into foreign languages, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``FAFSA Translation Act''.

SEC. 2. TRANSLATION OF FAFSA INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES.

    Section 483(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1090(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(13) Translation into foreign languages.--The Secretary 
        shall--
                    ``(A) translate the forms developed under this 
                subsection into not fewer than 11 foreign languages, to 
                be determined by the Secretary; and
                    ``(B) make the translated forms available to 
                applicants in paper and electronic formats.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by section 2 shall take effect on the date that 
is five years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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