Title: Missed Opportunities in Student Debt and Possibilities Act of 2017
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Missed Opportunities in Student Debt and Possibilities Act of 2017
This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to report annually on grants not awarded under each of its programs that aim to make education more accessible or affordable. For each program, ED must publish a report on the 10 applications that were not funded (completely or partially), but showed the greatest potential to make higher education more accessible or affordable or ease borrowers' student debt burdens.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4349 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4349

     To require reporting by the Secretary of Education on missed 
                 opportunities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 2017

Mr. Lewis of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
            to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require reporting by the Secretary of Education on missed 
                 opportunities, 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 ``Missed Opportunities in Student Debt 
and Possibilities Act of 2017''.
     (a) In General.--Not later than December 31 of each year, the 
Secretary of Education shall submit to Congress a report on missed 
opportunities for each competitive or discretionary grant program 
administered by the Department of Education in the preceding fiscal 
year that aims to make higher education more accessible or affordable 
in the United States or ease borrowers' student debt burdens.
    (b) Contents.--For each grant program described in subsection (a), 
the report shall detail the 10 individual applications, proposals, or 
requests for funding that--
            (1) were not funded or awarded, completely or partially; 
        but
            (2) showed the greatest potential, according to the 
        selection criteria and established goals of that grant program, 
        to--
                    (A) make higher education more accessible or 
                affordable; or
                    (B) ease borrowers' student debt burdens.
    (c) Reporting Date Flexibility.--If a law requires an annual report 
to Congress with respect to a grant program described in subsection 
(a), the report on missed opportunities required under this section for 
that program may--
            (1) be included in that annual report; and
            (2) be submitted on or before the date that annual report 
        is due.
    (d) Public Transparency.--Upon submission of a report on missed 
opportunities to Congress under this section, the Secretary shall make 
the report available to the public on an internet website of the 
Department of Education in a manner that is user friendly and able to 
be searched and downloaded by users of the website.
    (e) Trade Secrets and Confidential Information.--Nothing in this 
section authorizes the Secretary to disclose any information that is a 
trade secret or confidential information subject to section 552(b)(4) 
of title 5 or section 1905 of title 18.
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