College Opportunity for All Act

Bill: 108-hr-3180
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2003-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Agriculture and Food
Alaska
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Bilingualism
Black colleges
Books
Building construction
Child nutrition
Child welfare
College costs
Community and school
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Day care
Department of Education
Disabled
Distance education
Earned income tax credit
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational research
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Graduate education
Hawaiians
Health
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Income tax
Indian education
Indigenous peoples
Infants
Interest
Interest rates
Internet
Junior colleges
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Maintenance and repair
Married people
Mathematics
Medicaid
Mentoring
Migrant labor
Minorities
Minority education
Nurses
Nursing education
Preschool education
Reading
Scholarships
School administration
School buildings
School libraries
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Seasonal labor
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Social work
Special education
Strategic planning
Student aid
Student employment
Student loan funds
Supplemental security income program
Tax returns
Taxation
Teacher education
Teachers
Teaching materials
Transportation and Public Works
WIC program
Wages
Welfare recipients

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: 
College Opportunity for All Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise and reauthorize requirements relating to: (1) Pell Grants and other student aid amounts and access to higher education for all students; (2) support and educational opportunities for students at minority-serving institutions, including centers for teacher education; (3) postbaccalaureate opportunities at Hispanic-serving institutions; (4) TRIO and other outreach programs to disadvantaged students pursuing a postsecondary education; (5) support for working students through revision of student aid need analysis; (6) student loan forgiveness for certain public service employment; (7) relief to borrowers through elimination of origination fees and allowance of refinancing of consolidation loans; (8) simplification of the student aid process; (9) voluntary flexible agreements with guaranty agencies; and (10) allowance for State and other taxes.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1906)
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House