Nontraditional Student Success Act

Bill: 109-s-3528
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
College administration
College costs
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Day care
Department of Education
Earned income tax credit
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
English language
Equipment and supplies
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Internet
Labor and Employment
Mathematics
Mentoring
Migrant education
Minorities
Minority education
Reading
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student aid
Student employment
Student housing
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax penalties
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Taxation
Teacher education
Textbooks
Transportation and Public Works
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-15
text: 
Nontraditional Student Success Act - Authorizes and appropriates specified funds for Federal Pell grants under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Increases yearly maximum grant amounts and revises requirements for the allowance of two Pell grants during a single award year.
 
Requires the Secretary to publish annually in the Federal Register a revised table of income protection allowances.
 
Excludes the earned income tax credit (EITC) from financial aid determinations.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to select institutions of higher education for a Nontraditional Students Demonstration Program to test the effectiveness of providing expanded financial assistance to less than half-time students and students in compressed, modular, or other alternative schedules.
 
 
Directs the Secretary to award competitive grants to eligible institutions to improve remedial education.
 
Increases minimum grant amounts for the Federal TRIO programs.
 
Permits student support services and educational opportunity centers to include career and academic (as well as personal) counseling.
 
Makes awards under the Early Intervention and College Awareness Program for six years. Revises requirements for and reauthorizes the Program.
 
Reauthorizes the Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program of campus-based child care services for low-income parents in postsecondary education.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a website and brochures for providing outreach about financial aid and education tax credits that targets employers, one-stop centers, Head Start centers, and other appropriate locations.
 
Increases the activities for which grants to Hispanic-serving institutions, as well as grants from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, may be used.
 
Revises requirements for Special Programs for Students Whose Families Are Engaged in Migrant and Seasonal Farmwork. Reauthorizes the high school equivalency and the college assistance migrant programs.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the percentage Lifetime Learning income tax credit for qualified higher education expenses, but reduce the maximum annual dollar amount. Makes a portion of the credit refundable. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for making advance payments of such credits to eligible institutions on behalf of certified individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate