US Congress House Bill 1922 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on April 5 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-04-05 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Pending: House Education And The Workforce Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act of 2017 This bill amends title I (General Provisions) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise institutional eligibility criteria for a foreign graduate medical school to participate in federal student aid programs. Current law requires a foreign graduate medical school to meet certain requirements—a minimum pass rate threshold on the medical licensing exam and a minimum percentage of foreign students—to participate in the Federal Direct Loan (DL) program, unless the Department of Education (ED) establishes alternative standards or the school has a grandfathered clinical training program. This bill terminates ED's authority to establish alternative standards and eliminates the exemption for a school with a grandfathered clinical training program (i.e., it requires all foreign graduate medical schools to meet minimum requirements to participate in the DL program).

Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act of 2017

Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]

Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-05	House	Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
2017-04-05	House	Introduced in House

SB850 (Related) 2017-04-05 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text as introduced in Senate: CR S2367-2368)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1922/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1922/BILLS-115hr1922ih.pdf