I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2753 
To provide for loan repayment for teachers in high-need schools. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 26, 2017 
Mr. KILMER (for himself and Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
Workforce 
A BILL 
To provide for loan repayment for teachers in high-need 
schools. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Teacher Loan Repay-
ment Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. LOAN REPAYMENT FOR TEACHERS. 
(a) SUNSETS.—The Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 420O— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘Beginning’’ and inserting 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) SUNSET.—Beginning on the date of enactment 
of the Teacher Loan Repayment Act of 2017, the Sec-
retary shall not award funds under this subpart for new 
TEACH Grants.’’; 
(2) in section 428J, by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(i) SUNSET.—Beginning on the date of enactment 
of the Teacher Loan Repayment Act of 2017, the Sec-
retary shall not enter into a new agreement to assume the 
obligation to repay a qualified loan amount under this sec-
tion.’’; 
(3) in section 428K— 
(A) by redesignating subsection (h) as sub-
section (i); and 
(B) by inserting after subsection (g) the 
following: 
‘‘(h) SUNSET.—Beginning on the date of enactment 
of the Teacher Loan Repayment Act of 2017, the Sec-
retary shall not enter into a new agreement to forgive a 
qualified loan amount under this section.’’; and 
(4) in section 460, by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(i) SUNSET.—Beginning on the date of enactment 
of the Teacher Loan Repayment Act of 2017, the Sec-
retary shall not enter into a new agreement to cancel the 
obligation to repay a qualified loan amount under this sec-
tion.’’. 
(b) LOAN REPAYMENT FOR TEACHERS.—Title IV of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘PART J—LOAN REPAYMENT FOR TEACHERS 
‘‘SEC. 499A. LOAN REPAYMENT FOR TEACHERS. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to en-
courage highly qualified individuals to enter and continue 
in the teaching profession, and to ensure qualified effective 
teachers are encouraged to work in high-need schools. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) CHILD
WITH
A
DISABILITY.—The term 
‘child with a disability’ has the meaning given the 
term in section 602 of the Individuals with Disabil-
ities Education Act. 
‘‘(2) STUDENT LOAN.—The term ‘student loan’ 
means a loan— 
‘‘(A) made, insured, or guaranteed under 
part B, except as provided in subparagraph (C); 
‘‘(B) made under part D or E, except as 
provided in subparagraph (C); or 
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‘‘(C) made under section 428C or 455(g), 
to the extent that such loan was used to repay 
a Federal Direct Stafford Loan, a Federal Di-
rect Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, or a loan 
made under section 428 or 428H. 
‘‘(c) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary shall 
carry out a program under which the Department of Edu-
cation shall assume the obligation to repay a student loan, 
by direct payments on behalf of a borrower to the holder 
of such loan, in accordance with subsection (e), for any 
borrower who— 
‘‘(1) is not in default on a loan for which the 
borrower seeks forgiveness; and 
‘‘(2) is employed as a full-time teacher for serv-
ice in an academic year (including such a teacher 
employed by an educational service agency)— 
‘‘(A) in a public elementary school or sec-
ondary school, which, for the purpose of this 
paragraph and for that year— 
‘‘(i) has been determined by the Sec-
retary (after consultation with the State 
educational agency of the State in which 
the school is located) to be a school in 
which the number of children meeting a 
measure 
of 
poverty 
under 
section 
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1113(a)(5) of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965, is not less 
than 40 percent of the total number of 
children enrolled in such school; and 
‘‘(ii) is in a school district served by 
a local educational agency that is eligible 
in such year for assistance pursuant to 
part A of title I of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965; or 
‘‘(B) in a public elementary school or sec-
ondary school or location operated by an edu-
cational service agency, which, for the purpose 
of this paragraph and for that year, has been 
determined by the Secretary (after consultation 
with the State educational agency of the State 
in which the educational service agency oper-
ates) to be a school or location in which the 
number of children taught who meet a measure 
of poverty under section 1113(a)(5) of the Ele-
mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 
is not less than 40 percent of the total number 
of children taught at such school or location. 
‘‘(d) SPECIAL RULES.— 
‘‘(1) LIST.—If the list of schools in which a 
teacher may perform service pursuant to subsection 
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eligible to receive student loan repayment under this 
section, the individual shall remain employed in the 
school or location for which the individual gained eli-
gibility for student loan repayment under this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(2) STUDENT LOAN PAYMENT AMOUNT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In the agreement de-
scribed in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall 
agree to make a student loan payment for such 
individual of $250 a month for the first and 
second year of teaching, $300 a month for the 
third year of teaching, $350 a month for the 
fourth year of teaching, and $400 a month for 
the fifth and sixth year of teaching. 
‘‘(B) MAXIMUM
TOTAL
AMOUNT.—The 
maximum total amount of student loan pay-
ments made by the Secretary for an individual 
under this section shall be $23,400. 
‘‘(C) REMAINING BALANCE.—An individual 
shall enter repayment on any remaining prin-
cipal and interest due on a student loan for 
which the Secretary has made payments under 
this section after the maximum total amount 
has been reached under subparagraph (B). 
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‘‘(3) BEGINNING
OF
PAYMENTS.—Nothing in 
this section shall authorize the Secretary to pay any 
amount to reimburse a borrower for any student 
loan payments made by such borrower prior to the 
date on which the Secretary entered into an agree-
ment with the borrower under this subsection.’’. 
Æ 
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