Public Service Expansion Act

Bill: 116-hr-4310
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Boyle, Brendan F. [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2019-09-12
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees

Higher education

Student aid and college costs

Tax-exempt organizations
Latest action: action_date: 2019-09-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-09-12
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Public Service Expansion Act</b></p> <p>This bill revises the definition of a public service job to include working at any nonprofit organization, regardless of the organization's mission, for the purposes of student loan repayment and public service student loan forgiveness.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4310 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 12, 2019 Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania 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 clarify that employment in any position at a nonprofit organization is a public service job for purposes of the public service loan forgiveness program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Public Service Expansion Act . 2. Repayment plan for public service employees Section 455(m)(3)(B) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)(3)(B) ) is amended— (1) in clause (i)— (A) by inserting or after public library sciences, ; and (B) by striking , or at an organization that is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code; or and inserting a semicolon; (2) by redesignating clause (ii) as clause (iii); and (3) by inserting after clause (i), the following: (ii) a full time job in any position at an organization that is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code, without regard to the mission of such organization; or .