I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4579 
To require the Secretary of Education to verify that individuals have made 
a commitment to serve in the Armed Forces or in public service, or 
otherwise are a borrower on an eligible loan which has been submitted 
to a guaranty agency for default aversion or is already in default, 
before such individuals obtain a consolidation loan for purposes specified 
under section 455(o) of the Higher Education Act of 1965. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 6, 2014 
Mr. SALMON (for himself, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. ROE of Tennessee, 
Mr. GARCIA, Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. MURPHY 
of Florida, and Mr. ENGEL) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Education to verify that individ-
uals have made a commitment to serve in the Armed 
Forces or in public service, or otherwise are a borrower 
on an eligible loan which has been submitted to a guar-
anty agency for default aversion or is already in default, 
before such individuals obtain a consolidation loan for 
purposes specified under section 455(o) of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. REQUIRED VERIFICATION. 
Section 428C of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1078–3) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(3)(B)(i)(V)(aa), by insert-
ing before the period at the end the following: ‘‘in 
a case in which the Secretary verifies that the indi-
vidual is currently eligible for income contingent re-
payment or income-based repayment and that the 
loan(s) in question have been submitted to the guar-
anty agency for default aversion or if the loan is al-
ready in default’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)(3)(B)(i)(V)(bb), by insert-
ing before the period at the end the following: ‘‘in 
a case in which the Secretary verifies with docu-
mentation that the individual is, at the time of the 
application, employed in a public service job, as that 
term is defined in section 455(m)(3)’’; 
(3) in subsection (a)(3)(B)(i)(V)(cc), by insert-
ing before the period at the end the following: ‘‘in 
a case in which the Secretary verifies that the indi-
vidual is a member of a regular or reserve compo-
nent of the Armed Forces by contacting the Sec-
retary of the military department or the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, as the case may be, having ju-
risdiction over the Armed Force in which the indi-
vidual claims to be a member’’; and 
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(4) in subsection (b)(5), by inserting after the 
second sentence the following: ‘‘In addition, the Sec-
retary shall not offer any loans offered under this 
paragraph 
unless 
the 
Secretary 
has 
received 
verification described in subsection (a)(3)(B)(i)(V) 
(aa)–(cc), as applicable.’’. 
Æ 
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