Title: Corporal Ronil Singh and Fallen Heroes Scholarship Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Corporal Ronil Singh and Fallen Heroes Scholarship Act
This bill eliminates the expected family contribution (EFC) used to determine financial need in the case of a Pell Grant-eligible student whose spouse died as a result of performing military service in Iraq or Afghanistan after September 11, 2001, or while in the line of duty as a police officer, firefighter, or other public safety officer. Such a student is eligible to receive an automatic zero EFC and qualifies for the maximum Pell Grant award if the student was younger than 24 years old or enrolled at an institution of higher education at the time of the spouse's death. Currently, the automatic zero EFC provision applies only to a Pell Grant-eligible student whose parent or guardian died in the line of duty.
The bill also modifies the calculation of the increased Pell Grant award for these students.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2697 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2697

   To increase Federal Pell Grants for the children of fallen public 
                safety officers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 2019

   Mr. Harder of California introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to 
the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To increase Federal Pell Grants for the children of fallen public 
                safety officers, 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 ``Corporal Ronil Singh and Fallen 
Heroes Scholarship Act''.

SEC. 2. CALCULATION OF ELIGIBILITY.

    Section 473(b)(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1087mm(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, or spouse'' after 
        ``guardian''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by insert ``, or spouse's'' after 
        ``guardian's''.

SEC. 3. CALCULATION OF PELL GRANT AMOUNT.

    Section 401(b)(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1070a(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by striking the matter preceding clause (i) of 
        subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:
            ``(2)(A) Subject to subparagraph (C), the amount of the 
        Federal Pell Grant for a student eligible under this part shall 
        be--''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(C) In the case of a student who meets the requirements 
        of subparagraphs (A), (B)(ii), and (C) of section 473(b)(2)--
                    ``(i) clause (ii) of subparagraph (A) of this 
                paragraph shall be applied by substituting `from the 
                amounts appropriated in the last enacted appropriation 
                Act applicable to that award year, an amount equal to 
                the amount of the increase calculated under paragraph 
                (7)(B) for that year' for `the amount of the increase 
                calculated under paragraph (7)(B) for that year'; and
                    ``(ii) such student--
                            ``(I) shall be provided an amount under 
                        clause (i) of this subparagraph only to the 
                        extent that funds are specifically provided in 
                        advance in an appropriation Act to such 
                        students for that award year; and
                            ``(II) shall not be eligible for the 
                        amounts made available pursuant to clauses (i) 
                        through (iii) of paragraph (7)(A).''.

SEC. 4. BUDGETARY EFFECTS.

    The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying 
with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by 
reference to the latest statement titled ``Budgetary Effects of PAYGO 
Legislation'' for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional 
Record by the Chairman of the Budget Committee of the House of 
Representatives, provided that such statement has been submitted prior 
to the vote on passage.

SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
June 1, 2019.
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