[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 199 (Tuesday, November 16, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8297-S8298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4725. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO (for herself and Mr. Kaine) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. 
Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ____. IMPROVING IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN SERVICE GRANT AND 
                   CHILDREN OF FALLEN HEROES GRANT.

       (a) Technical Amendment Relating to Iraq and Afghanistan 
     Service Grant and

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     Children of Fallen Heroes Grant.--Part A of title IV of the 
     Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.), as 
     amended by section 703 of the FAFSA Simplification Act (title 
     VII of division FF of Public Law 116-260), is amended--
       (1) in section 401--
       (A) in subsection (c)--
       (i) in paragraph (2)--

       (I) by striking subparagraph (A); and
       (II) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as 
     subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively;

       (ii) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ``(2)(B)(i)'' and 
     inserting ``(2)(A)(i)'';
       (iii) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (7); and
       (iv) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
       ``(5) Prevention of double benefits.--No eligible student 
     described in paragraph (2) may concurrently receive a grant 
     under both this subsection and subsection (b).
       ``(6) Terms and conditions.--The Secretary shall award 
     grants under this subsection in the same manner and with the 
     same terms and conditions, including the length of the period 
     of eligibility, as the Secretary awards Federal Pell Grants 
     under subsection (b), except that--
       ``(A) the award rules and determination of need applicable 
     to the calculation of Federal Pell Grants under subsection 
     (b)(1) shall not apply to grants made under this subsection; 
     and
       ``(B) the maximum period determined under subsection (d)(5) 
     shall be determined by including all grants made under this 
     section received by the eligible student and all grants so 
     received under subpart 10 before the effective date of this 
     subsection.''; and
       (2) by striking section 420R (20 U.S.C. 1070h).
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
     shall take effect as if included in section 703 of the FAFSA 
     Simplification Act (title VII of division FF of Public Law 
     116-260) and subject to the effective date of section 701(b) 
     of such Act.
       (c) Transition.--The Secretary shall take such steps as are 
     necessary to transition from the Iraq and Afghanistan Service 
     Grant program under subpart 10 of part A of title IV of the 
     Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070h), as in effect 
     on the day before the effective date of this section, and the 
     provision of Federal Pell Grants under section 401(c) of the 
     Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(c)), as amended 
     by the FAFSA Simplification Act and this Act.
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