[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2949 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2949

    To require the Secretary of Defense to complete a data matching 
     agreement with the Secretary of Education in order to ensure 
  individuals who are current or former active-duty military service 
members or civilian employees and are otherwise eligible for assistance 
under the public service loan forgiveness program have their periods of 
   employment automatically certified and counted towards the public 
                   service loan forgiveness program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 27 (legislative day, September 22), 2023

 Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself and Mr. Moran) introduced the following 
   bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed 
                                Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Secretary of Defense to complete a data matching 
     agreement with the Secretary of Education in order to ensure 
  individuals who are current or former active-duty military service 
members or civilian employees and are otherwise eligible for assistance 
under the public service loan forgiveness program have their periods of 
   employment automatically certified and counted towards the public 
                   service loan forgiveness program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Military Access to Higher 
Education Benefits Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. DATA MATCHING AGREEMENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Defense shall complete a data matching agreement with the 
Secretary of Education in order to ensure that individuals who are 
current or former active-duty military service members or civilian 
employees and are otherwise eligible for assistance under the public 
service loan forgiveness program under section 455(m) of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)) have their periods of 
employment, beginning on October 1, 2007, automatically certified and 
counted towards the public service loan forgiveness program.
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