No Student Loans for Campus Criminals Act

Bill: 119-s-937
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2025-03-11
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-03-11
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>No Student Loans for Campus Criminals Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits an individual who is convicted of any federal or state offense related to the individual's conduct at or during the course of a protest at an institution of higher education from receiving certain federal student loan benefits.</p><p>Specifically, an individual who is convicted of such an offense shall not be eligible to have any covered loan forgiven, cancelled, waived, or modified under the Higher Education Act of 1965, under any executive order, or through any action taken by the Department of Education.&nbsp;<em>Covered loans</em> refer to Federal Family Education Loans, Federal Direct Loans, Federal Perkins Loans, and loans under the Health Education Assistance Loan Program.</p><p>Additionally, an individual who is convicted of such an offense shall not be eligible to receive Federal Direct Loans.</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 937 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 11 (legislative day, March 10), 2025 Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To establish that an individual who is convicted of any offense under any Federal or State law related to the individual’s conduct at and during the course of a protest that occurs at an institution of higher education shall be ineligible to receive a Federal student loan or for forgiveness, cancellation, waiver, or modification of certain Federal student loans.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Student Loans for Campus Criminals Act . 2. Prohibitions on receipt of Federal student loans and loan forgiveness for certain individuals (a) Prohibitions (1) Loan forgiveness Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an individual described in paragraph (3) shall not be eligible to have any covered loan, or a portion of such loan, forgiven, cancelled, waived, or modified under the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq. ) or under any other Executive Order or action of the Department of Education. (2) Loan receipt Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an individual described in paragraph (3) shall not be eligible to receive a loan made under part D of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087a et seq. ). (3) Affected individual An individual described in this paragraph is an individual who is convicted of any offense under any Federal or State law related to the individual’s conduct at and during the course of a protest that occurs at an institution of higher education. (b) Definitions In this section: (1) Covered loan The term covered loan means— (A) a loan made, insured, or guaranteed under part B, D, or E of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1071 et seq. ; 1087a et seq.; 1087aa et seq.) before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act; or (B) a loan under the Health Education Assistance Loan Program under title VII of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 292 et seq. ) made before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act. (2) Institution of higher education The term institution of higher education has the meaning given that term in section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1002 ).