Student Aid Enhancement Act

Bill: 115-hr-4662
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Lawson, Al, Jr. [D-FL-5]
Introduced: 2017-12-15
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2017-12-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-12-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Student Aid Enhancement Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify the calculation used to determine a dependent student's amount of need for financial assistance. Specifically, the bill excludes the income and assets of the dependent student in the calculation of the expected family contribution for the student.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4662 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 15, 2017 Mr. Lawson of Florida 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 exclude the income and assets of dependent students in the calculation of the expected family contribution for such students.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Student Aid Enhancement Act . 2. Calculating expected family contribution for dependent students Part F of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087kk et seq.) is amended— (1) in section 474(b) ( 20 U.S.C. 1087nn(b) )— (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking the student and ; and (B) in paragraph (4)(B), by striking and (B) the student and and inserting or (B) ; (2) in section 475 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087oo )— (A) in subsection (a)— (i) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3); and (ii) by striking the sum of and all that follows through the parents’ contribution and inserting the parents’ contribution ; (B) by striking subsections (g), (h), and (j); and (C) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (g); and (3) in section 480(b)(1)(F) ( 20 U.S.C. 1087vv(b)(1)(F) ), by striking , except and all that follows through parents .