POST GRAD Act

Bill: 114-hr-4223
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2015-12-10
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Education

Higher education

Student aid and college costs
Latest action: action_date: 2016-03-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-12-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Protecting Our Students by Terminating Graduate Rates that Add to Debt Act or the POST GRAD Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make graduate and professional students eligible to receive subsidized Stafford Loans under the Federal Direct Loan Program beginning on July 1, 2016. (Graduate and professional students have been ineligible to receive subsidized Stafford Loans since July 1, 2012.) </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4223 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 10, 2015 Ms. Judy Chu of California (for herself, Ms. Lee , Ms. Kuster , Mr. Lowenthal , Mr. Honda , Mr. Takano , Ms. Titus , Mr. McDermott , Mr. Garamendi , Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas , Mrs. Capps , Mrs. Napolitano , and Mr. David Scott of Georgia ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reinstate the authority of the Secretary of Education to make Federal Direct Stafford Loans to graduate and professional students.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Our Students by Terminating Graduate Rates that Add to Debt Act or the POST GRAD Act . 2. Reinstatement of authority to make Federal Direct Stafford Loans to graduate and professional students Section 455(a)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087e(a)(3) ) is amended— (1) in the paragraph heading, by inserting Temporary before Termination ; and (2) in subparagraph (A), in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting , and ending on or before June 30, 2016 after 2012 . 3. Inapplicability of rulemaking requirements Sections 482(c) and 492 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1089(c) ; 1098a) shall not apply to the regulations under this Act.