Teacher Debt Relief Act

Bill: 117-hr-6898
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hayes, Jahana [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2022-03-02
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2022-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Teacher Debt Relief Act</b></p> <p>This bill allows an eligible teacher to use the same teaching service to qualify for both the Teacher Loan Forgiveness program and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6898 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 2, 2022 Mrs. Hayes (for herself, Mr. Takano , and Ms. Jayapal ) 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 change certain eligibility provisions for loan forgiveness for teachers, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Teacher Debt Relief Act . 2. Loan forgiveness for teachers The Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq. ) is amended— (1) in section 428J(g)(2) ( 20 U.S.C. 1078–10(g)(2) )— (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting or after the semicolon at the end; (B) by striking subparagraph (B); and (C) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (B); (2) in section 455(m) ( 20 U.S.C. 1087e(m) ), in paragraph (4), by striking both this subsection and section 428J, 428K, 428L, or 460 and inserting both this subsection and section 428K or 428L ; and (3) in section 460(g)(2) ( 20 U.S.C. 1087j(g)(2) )— (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting or after the semicolon at the end; (B) by striking subparagraph (B); and (C) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (B).