[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7477 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7477

    To require the Secretary of Defense to complete a data matching 
     agreement with the Secretary of Education in order to ensure 
  individuals who are current or former active-duty military service 
members or civilian employees and are otherwise eligible for assistance 
under the public service loan forgiveness program have their periods of 
   employment automatically certified and counted towards the public 
                   service loan forgiveness program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 29, 2024

 Mr. Van Orden (for himself, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Mr. Peters, 
and Ms. Stefanik) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
 the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Secretary of Defense to complete a data matching 
     agreement with the Secretary of Education in order to ensure 
  individuals who are current or former active-duty military service 
members or civilian employees and are otherwise eligible for assistance 
under the public service loan forgiveness program have their periods of 
   employment automatically certified and counted towards the public 
                   service loan forgiveness 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 ``Ensuring Military Access to Higher 
Education Benefits Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. DATA MATCHING AGREEMENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

     Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Defense shall complete a data matching agreement with 
the Secretary of Education in order to ensure that individuals who are 
current or former active-duty military service members or civilian 
employees and are otherwise eligible for assistance under the public 
service loan forgiveness program under section 455(m) of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)) have their periods of 
employment, beginning on October 1, 2007, certified.
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