To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include certain employment as a health care practitioner as eligible for public service loan forgiveness, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-1133
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2021-02-18
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Government lending and loan guarantees

Health personnel

Higher education

Student aid and college costs

Tax-exempt organizations
Latest action: action_date: 2021-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-02-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill makes certain full-time health care practitioners eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Specifically, the bill extends program eligibility to health care practitioners who work at a nonprofit or public hospital or facility but are prohibited under state law from being directly employed by the hospital or facility.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1133 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 18, 2021 Mr. Harder of California (for himself, Mr. Obernolte , Mr. Castro of Texas , and Mr. Taylor ) 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 include certain employment as a health care practitioner as eligible for public service loan forgiveness, and for other purposes.

1. Amendments to terms and conditions of public service loan forgiveness Section 455(m)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)(3) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (C) Full-time job as health care practitioner For purposes of subparagraph (B)(i), the term full-time professionals engaged in health care practitioner occupations includes an individual who— (i) has a full-time job as a health care practitioner; (ii) provides medical services in such full-time job at a nonprofit hospital or public hospital or other nonprofit or public health care facility; and (iii) is prohibited by State law from being employed directly by such hospital or other health care facility. .