I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4399 
To expand the monthly payments that may be eligible for public service 
loan forgiveness. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 15, 2017 
Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. COSTELLO of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. SARBANES, and Mr. FITZPATRICK) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
Workforce 
A BILL 
To expand the monthly payments that may be eligible for 
public service loan forgiveness. 
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 ‘‘PSLF Technical Cor-
rections Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 
1965. 
Section 455(m) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)) is amended— 
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(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through 
(4) as paragraphs (3) through (5), respectively; 
(2) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A), by striking ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and inserting 
‘‘paragraph (3)’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘or’’ 
after the semicolon; 
(ii) by striking clause (iii); and 
(iii) by redesignating clause (iv) as 
clause (iii); 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) COMPARABLE PAYMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—In addition to can-
celing the balance of interest and principal due 
for a borrower described in paragraph (1), the 
Secretary shall also cancel the balance of inter-
est and principal due, in accordance with para-
graph (3), on any eligible Federal Direct Loan 
not in default for a borrower who— 
‘‘(i) is in a repayment plan based on 
income under subsection (e) or section 
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493C at the time that borrower applies for 
loan forgiveness under this subsection; 
‘‘(ii) has made 120— 
‘‘(I) 
qualifying 
monthly 
pay-
ments, as defined in subparagraph 
(B)(i), on the eligible Federal Direct 
Loan after October 1, 2007; 
‘‘(II) qualifying monthly pay-
ments, as defined in subparagraph 
(B)(ii), on the eligible Federal Direct 
Loan after October 1, 2007; or 
‘‘(III) total monthly payments 
that qualify for loan forgiveness under 
this subsection, which may include 
any combination of payments that 
otherwise qualify under paragraph 
(1), qualifying monthly payments de-
scribed in subclause (I), or qualifying 
monthly payments described in sub-
clause (II); 
‘‘(iii) is employed in a public service 
job at the time of such forgiveness; and 
‘‘(iv) has been employed in a public 
service job during the period in which the 
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borrower makes each of the 120 payments 
described in clause (ii). 
‘‘(B) QUALIFYING MONTHLY PAYMENT.— 
In this paragraph, the term ‘qualifying monthly 
payment’ means— 
‘‘(i)(I) an initial monthly payment 
that was— 
‘‘(aa) made under any re-
payment plan that is not de-
scribed in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) 
of paragraph (1)(A); and 
‘‘(bb) of an amount that is 
not less than— 
‘‘(AA) 
the 
monthly 
amount that the borrower is 
required to pay in the repay-
ment plan based on income 
described in subparagraph 
(A)(i); or 
‘‘(BB) 
the 
monthly 
amount that the borrower 
would have been required to 
pay if the borrower had en-
tered 
a 
repayment 
plan 
based on income under sub-
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section (e) or section 493C 
at the time the borrower en-
tered the repayment plan de-
scribed in item (aa); and 
‘‘(II) every subsequent monthly pay-
ment that the borrower made after the ini-
tial payment described in subclause (I) and 
before the borrower entered the repayment 
plan based on income described in sub-
paragraph (A)(i); or 
‘‘(ii) a monthly payment certified 
through the extended review process de-
scribed in subparagraph (C). 
‘‘(C) QUALIFYING
MONTHLY
PAYMENT 
THROUGH EXTENDED REVIEW.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—A borrower who 
has not made 120 qualifying monthly pay-
ments, as defined in subparagraph (B)(i), 
may request that the Secretary complete 
an extended review of the borrower’s re-
payment history. 
‘‘(ii) EXTENDED REVIEW.—If the Sec-
retary receives a request for an extended 
review described in clause (i), the Sec-
retary shall— 
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‘‘(I) for each month of past pay-
ments made under a plan that is not 
described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of 
paragraph (1)(A) after October 1, 
2007, determine the amount that the 
borrower would have been required to 
pay in that month (based on the bor-
rower’s income in that year or month) 
if the borrower had been on the repay-
ment plan based on income described 
in subparagraph (A)(i) in that month; 
and 
‘‘(II) certify as a qualifying 
monthly payment, any month for 
which the payment the borrower actu-
ally made in that month was not less 
than the amount of the payment cal-
culated under subclause (I) for that 
month.’’; and 
(4) in paragraph (3), as redesignated by para-
graph (1), by inserting ‘‘or paragraph (2), as the 
case may be’’ after ‘‘paragraph (1)’’. 
Æ 
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