Title: SUCCESS Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Stopping Unfair Collateral Consequences from Ending Student Success Act or the SUCCESS Act
This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify federal student aid eligibility criteria.
Specifically, the legislation repeals a provision that suspends a student's federal student aid eligibility for a one-year, two-year, or indefinite period following that student's first, second, or third drug offense.
Additionally, it prohibits the Department of Education from including on any federal financial aid form (e.g., the Free Application for Federal Student Aid) a question about an applicant's prior drug offense convictions.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1432 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1432

 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to repeal the suspension of 
  eligibility for grants, loans, and work assistance for drug-related 
                               offenses.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2017

Ms. Bass (for herself, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Young of Alaska, and 
 Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois) introduced the following bill; which 
      was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to repeal the suspension of 
  eligibility for grants, loans, and work assistance for drug-related 
                               offenses.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stopping Unfair Collateral 
Consequences from Ending Student Success Act'' or ``SUCCESS Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF SUSPENSION OF ELIGIBILITY UNDER THE HIGHER EDUCATION 
              ACT OF 1965 FOR GRANTS, LOANS, AND WORK ASSISTANCE FOR 
              DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES.

    (a) Repeal.--Subsection (r) of section 484 of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1091(r)) is repealed.
    (b) Revision of FAFSA Form.--Section 483 of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1090) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
                            ``(i) Convictions.--The Secretary shall not 
                        include any question about the conviction of an 
                        applicant for the possession or sale of illegal 
                        drugs on the FAFSA (or any other form developed 
                        under subsection (a)).''.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--The Higher Education Act of 1965 is 
amended--
            (1) in section 428(b)(3) (20 U.S.C. 1078(b)(3))--
                    (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``485(l)'' and 
                inserting ``485(k)''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``485(l)'' and 
                inserting ``485(k)'';
            (2) in section 435(d)(5) (20 U.S.C. 1085(d)(5))--
                    (A) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``485(l)'' and 
                inserting ``485(k)''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (F), by striking ``485(l)'' and 
                inserting ``485(k)'';
            (3) in section 484 (20 U.S.C. 1091), by redesignating 
        subsections (s) and (t) as subsections (r) and (s), 
        respectively;
            (4) in section 485 (20 U.S.C. 1092)--
                    (A) by striking subsection (k); and
                    (B) by redesignating subsections (l) and (m) as 
                subsections (k) and (l), respectively; and
            (5) in section 487(e)(2)(B)(ii)(IV) (20 U.S.C. 
        1094(e)(2)(B)(ii)(IV)), by striking ``(l) of section 485'' and 
        inserting ``(k) of section 485''.
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