Defending Educational Opportunities for West Virginia Students Act of 2017

Bill: 115-s-1525
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV]
Introduced: 2017-07-11
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative remedies

Department of Education

Education of the disadvantaged

Higher education

Student aid and college costs
Latest action: action_date: 2017-07-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-07-11
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Defending Educational Opportunities for West Virginia Students Act of 2017</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Education to: (1) notify TRIO program applicants of any minor budgeting error in their applications, (2) permit the applicants to resubmit corrected applications no later than 30 days after being notified of the error, and (3) review and score the corrected applications.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1525 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 11, 2017 Mr. Manchin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To authorize the Secretary of Education to review and score TRIO applications with minor budgeting errors.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Defending Educational Opportunities for West Virginia Students Act of 2017 . 2. Authorization to review and score TRIO applications with minor budgeting errors The Secretary of Education shall— (1) notify an applicant that submits an application for assistance under chapter 1 of subpart 2 of part A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1070a–11 et seq.) that has a minor budgeting error, of such error; (2) permit such applicant to resubmit a corrected application not later than 30 days after the date of such notification; and (3) review and score such corrected application.