TABLE OF CONTENTS: 
     Title I: Authorization of Human Capital Investment Contracts 
     Title II: Tax Treatment of Human Capital Investment 
          Contracts 
     Title III: Securities Law Treatment of Human Capital 
          Investment Contracts 
     Title IV: Bankruptcy Law Treatment of Human Capital 
          Investment Contracts 
     Title V: Federal Student Assistance Treatment of Human 
          Capital Investment Contracts 
Student Success Act of 1999 - 
Title I: Authorization of Human Capital Investment Contracts
 - Authorizes individuals to enter into human capital investment contracts (HCICs) for the purposes of obtaining funds for the payment of tuition and other related expenses of postsecondary education by agreeing to pay to the holder of the contract a specified percentage of the individual's future earned income. 
(Sec. 101) Makes any HCIC that complies with required terms and conditions under this Act a valid, binding, and enforceable contract notwithstanding any State law limiting or otherwise regulating assignments of future wages or other income. 
(Sec. 102) Sets forth terms and conditions of HCICs, including requirements relating to: (1) specification of the percentages of future earned income which the student will be obligated to pay and of the maximum amount of earned income for each year to which such specified percentage shall apply; (2) a schedule of reductions in such percentage if the student's earned income from full-time employment is less than amounts specified in the contract (and an allowable schedule of limited increases in such percentage if the student obtains a deferral); (3) prohibitions against a student's entering into HCICs where payments exceed 20 percent of future earned income; (4) specification of the maximum period of time during which the student will be obligated to pay a portion of the student's future earned income from full-time employment, up to 180 months, with extensions by the number of deferred months; (5) no obligation to commence payments while carrying at least a minimum academic workload or while eligible for deferrals; (6) deferrals during periods of unemployment (as well as allowing certain payments to extinguish obligation after a maximum period of unemployment); (7) deferrals for up to 48 months of graduate education; (8) accelerated repayment; and (9) required disclosures. 
Title II: Tax Treatment of Human Capital Investment Contracts
 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that: (1) an HCIC shall not be treated as a debt instrument for specified purposes; and (2) amounts received by the student for entering into an HCIC shall be includible in such student's gross income for certain tax purposes. 
(Sec. 201) Sets forth conditions for allowable depreciation deductions with respect to HCICs. 
Allows a tax deduction, in determining adjusted gross income, for an individual's obligated payments under an HCIC. 
Deems income derived from, or gain from the sale or other disposition of, an HCIC as qualifying income which would exempt a publicly traded partnership from treatment as a corporation. 
Title III: Securities Law Treatment of Human Capital Investment Contracts
 - Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to provide for pooling of HCICs into investment companies. 
Title IV: Bankruptcy Law Treatment of Human Capital Investment Contracts
 - Amends Federal bankruptcy law to except from discharge in bankruptcy any payment owed by the debtor as a result of a payment made to or for the benefit of the debtor under an HCIC, unless: (1) such payment owed by the debtor first became due more than seven years (exclusive of any applicable suspension of the debtor's payment period) before the date of the filing of the petition for bankruptcy; or (2) excepting such debt from discharge will impose an undue hardship on the debtor and the debtor's dependents. 
Title V: Federal Student Assistance Treatment of Human Capital Investment Contracts
 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to provide that no portion of any amounts received by a student for entering into an HCIC shall be included as income or assets in the computation of expected family contribution for any program funded in whole or in part under HEA.
Output: Student Success Act of 1999