I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6031 
To provide student loan forgiveness to the survivors of victims of the terrorist 
attack on September 11, 2001. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 
Mrs. MCCARTHY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To provide student loan forgiveness to the survivors of 
victims of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. 
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 ‘‘September 11 Sur-
vivors Student Loan Relief Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CANCELLATION OF STUDENT LOAN INDEBTEDNESS 
FOR SURVIVORS OF VICTIMS OF THE SEP-
TEMBER 11, 2001, ATTACKS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
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(1) ELIGIBLE PUBLIC SERVANT.—The term ‘‘el-
igible public servant’’ means an individual who, as 
determined in accordance with regulations of the 
Secretary— 
(A) served as a police officer, firefighter, 
other safety or rescue personnel, or as a mem-
ber of the Armed Forces; and 
(B) died (or dies) or became (or becomes) 
permanently and totally disabled due to injuries 
suffered in the terrorist attack on September 
11, 2001. 
(2) ELIGIBLE VICTIM.—The term ‘‘eligible vic-
tim’’ means an individual who, as determined in ac-
cordance with regulations of the Secretary, died (or 
dies) or became (or becomes) permanently and to-
tally disabled due to injuries suffered in the terrorist 
attack on September 11, 2001. 
(3) ELIGIBLE
PARENT.—The term ‘‘eligible 
parent’’ means the parent of an eligible victim if— 
(A) the parent owes a Federal student loan 
that is a consolidation loan that was used to 
repay a PLUS loan incurred on behalf of such 
eligible victim; or 
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(B) the parent owes a Federal student loan 
that is a PLUS loan incurred on behalf of an 
eligible victim. 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Education. 
(5) FEDERAL
STUDENT
LOAN.—The term 
‘‘Federal student loan’’ means any loan made, in-
sured, or guaranteed under part B, D, or E of title 
IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. 
(b) RELIEF FROM INDEBTEDNESS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide 
for the discharge or cancellation of— 
(A) the Federal student loan indebtedness 
of the spouse of an eligible public servant, as 
determined in accordance with regulations of 
the Secretary, including any consolidation loan 
that was used jointly by the eligible public serv-
ant and his or her spouse to repay the Federal 
student loans of the spouse and the eligible 
public servant; 
(B) the portion incurred on behalf of the 
eligible victim (other than an eligible public 
servant), of a Federal student loan that is a 
consolidation loan that was used jointly by the 
eligible victim and his or her spouse, as deter-
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mined in accordance with regulations of the 
Secretary, to repay the Federal student loans of 
the eligible victim and his or her spouse; 
(C) the portion of the consolidation loan 
indebtedness of an eligible parent that was in-
curred on behalf of an eligible victim; and 
(D) the PLUS loan indebtedness of an eli-
gible parent that was incurred on behalf of an 
eligible victim. 
(2) METHOD
OF
DISCHARGE
OR
CANCELLA-
TION.—A loan required to be discharged or canceled 
under paragraph (1) shall be discharged or canceled 
by the method used under section 437(a), 455(a)(1), 
or 464(c)(1)(F) of the Higher Education Act of 
1965 
(20 
U.S.C. 
1087(a), 
1087e(a)(1), 
1087dd(c)(1)(F)), whichever is applicable to such 
loan. 
(c) FACILITATION
OF
CLAIMS.—The Secretary 
shall— 
(1) establish procedures for the filing of appli-
cations for discharge or cancellation under this sec-
tion by regulations that shall be prescribed and pub-
lished within 90 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act and without regard to the requirements of 
section 553 of title 5, United States Code; and 
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