To require the Secretary of Education to conduct a feasibility study for using income tax returns as the primary Federal student aid application.

Bill: 113-hr-3842
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2014-01-10
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional oversight

Government lending and loan guarantees

Government studies and investigations

Higher education

Student aid and college costs

Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Latest action: action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-01-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Directs the Secretary of Education to study and report on the feasibility and advantages and disadvantages of using individual income tax returns as the primary form of application for student aid under the Higher Education Act of 1965.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 3842 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 10, 2014 Mr. Grayson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To require the Secretary of Education to conduct a feasibility study for using income tax returns as the primary Federal student aid application.

1. Study on use of individual income tax returns as primary application for Federal student aid (a) Study The Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, shall conduct a study on the feasibility and advantages and disadvantages of using individual income tax returns as the primary form of application for student aid under the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq. ). (b) Report Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Commissioner, shall submit to Congress a report containing the results of the study conducted under subsection (a).