US Congress House Bill 2561 (Prior Session Legislation)

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October 22 2009 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Help Student Soldiers Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to waive the application of the requirement that students return title IV funds which were unearned due to their withdrawal from school to students whose withdrawal is necessitated by service in the Armed Forces. Provides loan forgiveness under the Federal Family Education Loan, Direct Loan, and Perkins Loan programs to students for that portion of loan assistance which is unearned due to their withdrawal from school for service in the Armed Forces and which is not returned to such programs by their schools.

Help Student Soldiers Act

Rep Foster, Bill	Rep Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana	Rep Blackburn, Marsha	Rep Hunter, Duncan D.
Rep Altmire, Jason	Rep Cao, Anh "Joseph"	Rep Carney, Christopher P.	Rep Chaffetz, Jason
Rep Johnson, Timothy V.	Rep Paulsen, Erik	Rep McGovern, James P.	Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C.
Rep Sestak, Joe	Rep Schakowsky, Janice D.	Rep Baldwin, Tammy	Rep Bishop, Timothy H.
Rep Bordallo, Madeleine Z.	Rep Carson, Andre	Rep Filner, Bob	Rep Grayson, Alan
Rep Grijalva, Raul M.	Rep Kind, Ron	Rep Biggert, Judy

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-10-22		Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
2009-05-21		Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

HB2456 (Related) 2009-10-22 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
SB1603 (Related) 2009-08-06 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HN02561:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr2561ih/pdf/BILLS-111hr2561ih.pdf