In the Red Act of 2016

Bill: 114-hr-5106
Sponsor: Rep. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2016-04-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Accounting and auditing
Capital gains tax
Corporate finance and management
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Employee benefits and pensions
Energy revenues and royalties
Financial services and investments
Foreign and international corporations
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Income tax deductions
Income tax exclusion
Income tax rates
Indian social and development programs
Inflation and prices
Legislative rules and procedure
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Minority education
Oil and gas
Securities
Senate
Student aid and college costs
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Taxation of foreign income
Vocational and technical education
Wages and earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2016-04-28
text: 

In the Red Act of 2016

 
This bill authorizes and appropriates specified funds to the Department of Education (ED) for FY2016-FY2025 and each succeeding year for grants: (1) to waive tuition and fees for eligible students at community colleges, and (2) to waive or reduce tuition and fees for low-income students at four-year historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions.
 
It amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct ED to establish a program to refinance outstanding federal student loans for borrowers of Direct Loan program loans disbursed before July 1, 2016, and Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program loans. (FFELs were not disbursed after June 30, 2010.)
 
The bill modifies, for academic year 2018-2019 and succeeding years, the calculation of the mandatory add-on amount used to determine the total maximum Federal Pell Grant award.
 
It also amends various provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to, among other things: (1) expand the expenses eligible for the American Opportunity Tax Credit to include the amount of a Federal Pell Grant used to pay for living expenses; and (2) include, as a qualified scholarship excludible from gross income, any amount received as a Federal Pell Grant.
 
Finally, the bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal royalty relief for: (1) deep gas wells in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and (2) deep water oil and gas leases in the central and western Gulf of Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2016-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2016-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2016-04-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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.
action_date: 2016-04-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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.
action_date: 2016-04-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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.
action_date: 2016-04-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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.
action_date: 2016-04-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2016-04-28
text: Introduced in House