[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 32 (Thursday, February 17, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S800-S801]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            PROTECTING OUR GOLD STAR FAMILIES EDUCATION ACT

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be discharged from 
further consideration of S. 3373 and the Senate proceed to its 
immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 3373) to improve the Iraq and Afghanistan 
     Service Grant and the Children of Fallen Heroes Grant.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill 
be considered read a third time and passed and that the motion to 
reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 3373) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed as follows:

                                S. 3373

       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 ``Protecting Our Gold Star 
     Families Education Act''.

     SEC. 2. IMPROVING IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN SERVICE GRANT AND 
                   CHILDREN OF FALLEN HEROES GRANT.

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

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       (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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