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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7297 

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 

DECEMBER 13, 2018 

Mr. DANNY K. 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 a student may not re17 ceive more than a total of $500 in emergency 

18 supplemental assistance grants per academic 

19 year; and 

20 ‘‘(C) the anticipated and unanticipated ex21 penses referred to in paragraph (1) that such 

22 grants will cover based on the needs of eligible 

23 students, which— 

24 ‘‘(i) may vary by factors including 

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1 cation in urban or rural area, or other cir2 cumstances; and 

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

4 cover— 

5 ‘‘(I) any component of the cost of 

6 attendance for the student; 

7 ‘‘(II) an allowance for actual or 

8 expected expenses incurred for de9 pendent care that exceeds such ex10 penses determined for the student 

11 under section 472(8); 

12 ‘‘(III) an allowance for actual or 

13 expected expenses for transportation 

14 that exceeds such expenses deter15 mined for the student under section 

16 472; and 

17 ‘‘(IV) personal items or expenses 

18 not otherwise covered by the cost of 

19 attendance for the student. 

20 ‘‘(3) PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL FUNDS.—The re21 cipient may use not more than 2 percent of the 

22 funds awarded under this section for grants under 

23 this subsection. 

24 ‘‘(4) DETERMINATION OF NEED.—A grant pro25 vided to a student under this subsection shall not be 


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1 considered in determining that student’s need for 

2 grant or work assistance under this title, except that 

3 in no case shall the total amount of student financial 

4 assistance awarded to a student under this title ex5 ceed that student’s cost of attendance by more than 

6 $500. 

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

8 students under this subsection, an institution shall 

9 ensure that adequate consultation takes place be10 tween the student support service program office 

11 and the institution’s financial aid office. 

12 ‘‘(6) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—Funds re13 ceived by a grant recipient that are used under this 

14 subsection shall be used to supplement, and not sup15 plant, non-Federal funds expended for student sup16 port services programs. 

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

18 funds allocated for projects authorized under this 

19 section from the amounts appropriated pursuant to 

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

21 allocated for such purpose for fiscal year 2019, not 

22 more than 2 percent of such excess funds may be 

23 made available for grants under this subsection. 


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

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

3 in section 472.’’. 

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