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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 6263 

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide basic and emergency 

supplemental living assistance grants under the student support services 

program. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 7, 2023 

Mr. DAVIS of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Education and the Workforce 

A BILL 

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide 

basic and emergency supplemental living assistance 

grants under the student support services program. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Earl N. Williams, Sr., 

5 First Chance Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL LIVING ASSISTANCE IN THE STU7 DENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM. 

8 Section 402D of the Higher Education Act of 1965 

9 (20 U.S.C. 1070a–14) is amended— 


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1 (1) in subsection (b)— 

2 (A) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 

3 the end; 

4 (B) in paragraph (6), by striking the pe5 riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

6 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

7 ‘‘(7) basic and emergency supplemental living 

8 assistance grants in accordance with subsection 

9 (f).’’; and 

10 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

11 ‘‘(f) BASIC AND EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL LIV12 ING ASSISTANCE GRANTS.— 

13 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out the activi14 ties required under subsection (b)(7) with a grant 

15 received under this section, the recipient of such 

16 grant shall provide basic and emergency supple17 mental living assistance grants to assist students 

18 who are current participants in the student support 

19 services program offered by the institution (in this 

20 subsection referred to as ‘eligible students’)— 

21 ‘‘(A) in the case of a basic supplemental 

22 living assistance grant, in covering reasonable, 

23 anticipated expenses necessary for the comple24 tion of an academic year of the students’ first 


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1 undergraduate baccalaureate course of study; 

2 and 

3 ‘‘(B) in the case of an emergency supple4 mental living assistance grant, in covering rea5 sonable, unanticipated expenses necessary for 

6 the students to persist in college during such 

7 academic year. 

8 ‘‘(2) AMOUNT OF GRANTS.—The recipient may 

9 determine— 

10 ‘‘(A) the appropriate division of the funds 

11 between basic and emergency supplemental as12 sistance grants, except that funds shall be pro13 vided for both basic and emergency grants; 

14 ‘‘(B) the amount of each such grant and 

15 the total grant funds that an eligible student 

16 may receive, except that the maximum amount 

17 that a student may receive in emergency sup18 plemental assistance grants may not exceed— 

19 ‘‘(i) for academic year 2024–2025, 

20 $500; and 

21 ‘‘(ii) for academic year 2025–2026 

22 and each succeeding academic year, the 

23 maximum amount in emergency supple24 mental assistance grants that a student 

25 may receive for the preceding academic 


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1 year, as determined under this subpara2 graph, increased by a percentage equal to 

3 the estimated percentage change increase 

4 in the Consumer Price Index (as deter5 mined by the Secretary, using the defini6 tion in section 478(f)); and 

7 ‘‘(C) the anticipated and unanticipated ex8 penses referred to in paragraph (1) that such 

9 grants will cover based on the needs of eligible 

10 students, which— 

11 ‘‘(i) may vary by factors including 

12 academic year, housing, parental status, lo13 cation in urban or rural area, or other cir14 cumstances; and 

15 ‘‘(ii) for an individual student, may 

16 cover— 

17 ‘‘(I) any component of the cost of 

18 attendance for the student; 

19 ‘‘(II) an allowance for actual or 

20 expected expenses incurred for de21 pendent care that exceeds such ex22 penses determined for the student 

23 under section 472(a)(9); 

24 ‘‘(III) an allowance for actual or 

25 expected expenses for transportation 


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1 that exceeds such expenses deter2 mined for the student under section 

3 472; and 

4 ‘‘(IV) personal items or expenses 

5 not otherwise covered by the cost of 

6 attendance for the student. 

7 ‘‘(3) PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL FUNDS.—The re8 cipient may use not more than 2 percent of the 

9 funds awarded under this section for grants under 

10 this subsection. 

11 ‘‘(4) DETERMINATION OF NEED.—A grant pro12 vided to a student under this subsection shall not be 

13 considered in determining that student’s need for 

14 grant or work assistance under this title, except that 

15 in no case shall the total amount of student financial 

16 assistance awarded to a student under this title ex17 ceed that student’s cost of attendance by more than 

18 $500. 

19 ‘‘(5) CONSULTATION.—In making grants to 

20 students under this subsection, an institution shall 

21 ensure that adequate consultation takes place be22 tween the student support service program office 

23 and the institution’s financial aid office. 

24 ‘‘(6) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—Funds re25 ceived by a grant recipient that are used under this 


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1 subsection shall be used to supplement, and not sup2 plant, non-Federal funds expended for student sup3 port services programs. 

4 ‘‘(7) FUNDS.—For a fiscal year for which the 

5 funds allocated for projects authorized under this 

6 section from the amounts appropriated pursuant to 

7 the authority of section 402A(g) exceeds the funds 

8 allocated for such purpose for fiscal year 2024, not 

9 more than 2 percent of such excess funds may be 

10 made available for grants under this subsection. 

11 ‘‘(8) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 

12 ‘cost of attendance’ has the meaning given the term 

13 in section 472.’’. 

14 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

15 The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect 

16 as if included in the FAFSA Simplification Act (title VII 

17 of division FF of Public Law 116–260) and subject to the 

18 effective date of section 701(b) of such Act, as amended 

19 by section 102(a) of the FAFSA Simplification Act Tech20 nical Corrections Act (division R of Public Law 117–103) 

21 (including the authorization provided under section 

22 102(c)(1)(A) of such Act). 

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