[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 937 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 937
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.
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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
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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.
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 ``No Student Loans for Campus
Criminals Act''.
SEC. 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).
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