Title: SUCCESS Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Stopping Unfair Collateral Consequences from Ending Student Success Act or the SUCCESS Act
This bill repeals a provision that makes students convicted of drug-related offenses ineligible for federal student aid and prohibits the Department of Education from asking about drug-related convictions on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5079 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5079

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 21, 2020

   Mr. Casey 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 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 the ``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Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1091(r)) is repealed.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 (q) and (r), 
        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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