Second Chance for Students Act

Bill: 116-hr-4089
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Introduced: 2019-07-26
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Higher education

Student aid and college costs
Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-07-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Second Chance for Students Act</b></p> <p>This bill modifies federal student aid eligibility for a student who is convicted of a drug offense involving marijuana possession.</p> <p>Under current law, a drug offense conviction involving the sale or possession of a controlled substance triggers a suspension of federal student aid eligibility for a specified period of time. This bill allows a student who is convicted of a drug offense involving marijuana possession, without the intent to distribute, to resume or retain federal student aid eligibility while completing a drug rehabilitation program.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4089 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 26, 2019 Mr. Foster (for himself, Ms. Moore , Mr. Johnson of Georgia , Ms. Norton , and Mr. Moulton ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize certain students to retain financial aid eligibility while completing a drug rehabilitation program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Second Chance for Students Act . 2. Exception for certain convictions Section 484(r) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1091(r) ) is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); (2) in paragraph (1), by striking A student and inserting Subject to paragraph (3), a student ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (3) Exception A student whose eligibility has been suspended under paragraph (1), or whose eligibility, in the absence of this paragraph, would have been suspended under paragraph (1), due to a conviction of an offense involving the possession of marijuana, without the intent to distribute, may resume or retain eligibility before the end of the ineligibility period (or the period that would have been the ineligibility period) determined under such paragraph during the period of completion of a drug rehabilitation program described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (2), except that such period of completion shall not exceed 6 months. .