[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4240 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4240

 To establish that an individual who is convicted of any offense under 
  any Federal or State law related to the individual's conduct at and 
during the course of a protest that occurs at an institution of higher 
education shall be ineligible for forgiveness, cancellation, waiver, or 
             modification of certain Federal student loans.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 2, 2024

  Mr. Cotton (for himself, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Romney, Mr. Scott of South 
   Carolina, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Daines, Mr. Wicker, Mr. 
 Crapo, Mr. Risch, Mrs. Blackburn, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. 
 Graham, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Vance, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Marshall, and Mr. Cruz) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
          Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish that an individual who is convicted of any offense under 
  any Federal or State law related to the individual's conduct at and 
during the course of a protest that occurs at an institution of higher 
education shall be ineligible for forgiveness, cancellation, waiver, or 
             modification of certain Federal student loans.

    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 ``No Bailouts for Campus Criminals 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) Prohibition.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, an individual described in paragraph (2) shall not be 
        eligible to have any covered loan, or a portion of such loan, 
        forgiven, cancelled, waived, or modified under the Higher 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) or under any 
        other Executive Order or action of the Department of Education.
            (2) Affected individual.--An individual described in this 
        paragraph is an individual who is convicted of any offense 
        under any Federal or State law related to the individual's 
        conduct at and during the course of a protest that occurs at an 
        institution of higher education.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Covered loan.--The term ``covered loan'' means--
                    (A) a loan made, insured, or guaranteed under part 
                B, D, or E of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 
                1965 (20 U.S.C. 1071 et seq.; 1087a et seq.; 1087aa et 
                seq.) before, on, or after the date of enactment of 
                this Act; or
                    (B) a loan under the Health Education Assistance 
                Loan Program under title VII of the Public Health 
                Service Act (42 U.S.C. 292 et seq.) made before, on, or 
                after the date of enactment of this Act.
            (2) Institution of higher education.--The term 
        ``institution of higher education'' has the meaning given that 
        term in section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
        U.S.C. 1002).
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