Title: PASS Act of 2018
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Promoting Academic Success Sustainably Act of 2018 or the PASS Act of 2018
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to decrease the maximum amount of Pell Grant awards that students may receive each year.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3423 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3423

To revise the amounts for discretionary Federal Pell Grant funding, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 6, 2018

Mr. Scott (for himself and Mr. Cassidy) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To revise the amounts for discretionary Federal Pell Grant funding, and 
                          for other purposes.

    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 ``Promoting Academic Success 
Sustainably Act of 2018'' or the ``PASS Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. AMOUNT OF DISCRETIONARY FEDERAL PELL GRANT FUNDING.

    (a) HEA Amendment.--Section 401(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(b)(2)(A)(i)) is amended by striking clause 
(i) and inserting the following:
                            ``(i)(I) the maximum Pell Grant, which 
                        shall be $5,135 for award year 2019-2020; or
                            ``(II) the maximum Federal Pell Grant, 
                        which, for an award year subsequent to the 
                        2019-2020 award year, shall be the amount 
                        specified in the Consolidated Appropriations 
                        Act, 2018 (Public Law 115-141), plus''.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section, or the 
amendment made by this section, shall be construed to prohibit an 
appropriations Act from increasing the maximum Federal Pell Grant award 
above the level specified in section 401(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(b)(2)(A)(i)) (as amended by 
subsection (a)) for future award years.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 401(b)(7)(C)(iv)(II)(aa) of the Higher 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(b)(7)(C)(iv)(II)(aa)) is 
        amended by striking ``as specified in the last enacted 
        appropriation Act applicable to that preceding award year'' and 
        inserting ``as determined under paragraph (2)(A)(i) for that 
        preceding award year''.
            (2) Section 401(g) is amended by striking ``specified in 
        such appropriation''.

SEC. 3. RESCISSION.

    Section 401(b)(7)(A)(iv)(IX) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1070a(b)(7)(A)(iv)(IX)) is amended by striking 
``$1,409,000,000'' and inserting ``$1,370,000,000''.
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