[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 140 (Wednesday, August 22, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5851]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3957. Mr. BOOKER (for himself, Ms. Smith, and Mrs. Shaheen) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3695 
proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for 
the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place in title III of division B, insert 
     the following:
       Sec. ___.  Not later than 6 months after the date of 
     enactment of this Act and periodically thereafter, the 
     Secretary of Education shall--
       (1) work with States to identify and implement a process 
     for increasing awareness of, and simplifying the application 
     and certification process for, TEACH Grants under subpart 9 
     of part A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
     U.S.C. 1070g et seq.);
       (2) review and make appropriate changes to the procedures 
     through which the service obligation of a recipient of a 
     TEACH Grant is converted to a loan and a recipient engages in 
     dispute resolution procedures;
       (3) disseminate to recipients and make publicly available 
     and accessible on the Department's website, clear, consistent 
     information on program service requirements and the 
     procedures related to grant to loan conversions, including--
       (A) an explanation that recipients have an option to appeal 
     a conversion or waiver decision under a TEACH Grant;
       (B) how a recipient can initiate an appeal; and
       (C) the specific criteria in considering the appeal;
       (4) clarify that a teacher in a qualifying teaching 
     position at a qualifying school that meets the TEACH Grant 
     program service obligation requirements for all or part of 
     one of the required 4 years of teaching and for the school 
     year in which the teacher was initially hired, but for which 
     such school fails to meet such requirements in subsequent 
     years, shall be deemed to meet program service requirements 
     for all of the subsequent years during which the teacher 
     remains at such school;
       (5) provide the full biennial report to Congress on the 
     TEACH Grant program, as required under section 420P of the 
     Higher Education Act of 1965, including copies of all 
     previous reports required since the program's inception;
       (6) make publicly available any analysis, findings, or 
     results of any reviews by the Department of Education 
     regarding erroneous or unfair conversions of TEACH Grants to 
     loans; and
       (7) direct the Commissioner of the National Center for 
     Education Statistics to add a school ID number to the data 
     collected in the Teacher Cancellation Low Income Directory.
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