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Bill· HRH.R. 6208 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Youth Education and Work Act - Title I: Amendments to Title IV of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act - Amends title IV (Youth Programs) of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to establish a Youth Education and Work Entitlement program to guarantee employment and supplemental employment opportunities to eligible youth in poverty areas. Defines "eligible youth" as a person between the ages of 15 and 19, inclusive, who has not acquired a high school diploma or its equivalent and is either attending a qualified high school or is a resident of a poverty area and has not attended school within the previous 12 months. Defines "qualifying school" as any high school a majority of whose students are residents of poverty areas and which serves all the residents of a poverty area. Defines "poverty area" as any Bureau of Census geographic division in which 20 percent or more of the residents are at or below the poverty level. Directs the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Education ("the Secretaries") administer youth education and work entitlement programs. Requires that applications for financial assistance for such programs be submitted jointly by any local education authority having jurisdiction over a qualifying school and the prime sponsor with jurisdiction over the poverty area from which such school draws it students. Sets forth required procedures and contents for such applications. Directs the Secretaries to ensure that opportunity to comment on such applications is given to appropriate parties, including State boards of education. Requires entitlement programs to include specified forms of appropriate compensatory activity consisting of: (1) not more than 20 hours per week during the school year and 40 hours in the summer, for every youth in a qualifying school who is making satisfactory progress; (2) not more than 15 hours per week during the school year and 40 hours in the summer, for every youth in such school who is not making satisfactory progress; and (3) not more than 40 hours per week, subject to specified total limits, for every other eligible youth. Grants a completion bonus to every youth who acquires a high school diploma or its equivalent while a participant in such program. Provides that such bonus: (1) shall have a value equal to 300 times the Federal minimum hourly wage and (2) shall be issued in the form of a certificate by the prime sponsor to the qualifying youth. Allows such bonus to be redeemed within two years issuance: (1) by an employer who has employed the youth for 2,000 hours after issuance and before expiration; or (2) by an institution of postsecondary education at which the youth has pursued a substantial full-time course of study, for an amount not exceeding attendance costs, with any balance to be payable to an employer at the rate of one hour of bonus for every two hours of employment supplied to the youth. Requires that all compensated activity be paid at a rate not less than 85 percent of the otherwise applicable Federal minimum wage. Limits compensation in any one year to 2,000 total hours for any youth and to 1,000 total hours for any youth attending school. Permits prime sponsors to pay in full the wages of any youth employed by any employer under such program. Exempts such program from specified conditions applicable to all other CETA programs. Directs the Secretaries to make grants to Governors to provide needed vocational education services to eligible youths, through State boards and in accordance with agreements between State boards and prime sponsors. Requires State vocational educational boards, prior to such agreements, to consult with designated representatives of State agencies and councils involved in the formulation of a five-year State plan under the Vocational Educational Act of 1963. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out such programs. Provides for reimbursement of prime sponsors, and for payments and grants to States and local education authorities. Repeals provisions for Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects. Title II: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that remuneration paid to any youth enrolled in the CETA youth entitlement program or paid to a youth within one calendar year after completion of such program is excluded from the definition of "wages" for purposes of employment taxes under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act and unemployment taxes under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. Title III: Establishment of the Academy of Education and Work - Establishes the Academy of Education and Work, a nonprofit organization to be organized under the laws of the District of Columbia. Directs the Secretaries to each appoint ten persons, representative of those administrating and operating the entitlement program, to be the interim board of governors of the academy. Directs the interim board to organize the academy and promulgate bylaws which include specified provisions. Declares that the purpose of the academy shall be to promote improved and alternative methods of instruction to enhance the educational attainment and employability potential of youth who have dropped out of the education system or are otherwise not being adequately prepared for further education or employment by providing a professional association of persons concerned in programs with that objective. Authorizes the academy to: (1) hold regional meetings of members and national meetings of fellows: (2) conduct training institutes for members; (3) provide professional recognition for those who have made significant contributions to entitlement programs implementation; (4) recommend changes in certification and credentialing procedures; and (5) disseminate information on successful programs using Departments of Education and Labor channels. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts to carry out such purposes for fiscal year 1981 and to pay the initial organizational expenses of the academy, including travel and subsistence costs of fellows attending national meetings, for fiscal year 1982. Requires that all academy expenses after fiscal year 1982 be paid for by membership dues and contributions.
Bill· HRH.R. 6168 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1979
Veterans' Education Amendments of 1980 - Increases the rates of educational benefits and allowances for eligible veterans and their survivors and dependents in the following areas: (1) subsistence allowance while pursuing vocational rehabilitation training; (2) educational assistance allowance; (3) special supplemental assistance for post-secondary courses of education; (4) special training allowance; (5) correspondence course allowance; (6) apprenticeship or other on-job training allowance; (7) educational loans; (8) flight training allowance; and (9) agricultural course allowance.
Bill· HRH.R. 6170 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1979
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the garnishment of wages of Federal employees for the collection of student loans.
Bill· SS. 2130 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1979
Developing Institutions Amendments of 1979 - Amends title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to carry out a program to improve the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of developing institutions. Defines "developing institution" as an institution of higher education of which: (1) the enrollment includes a substantial percentage of students from low-income families; and (2) the average educational and general expenditures are low, per full-time equivalent student, in comparison with institutions that offer similar instruction. Allows the Secretary to waive such expenditure criterion, if the institution submits persuasive evidence that its failure to meet such criterion is due to distorting factors and that its designation as a developing institution would be consistent with the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to Congress on such institutions receiving such waiver. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts to carry out such program for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Directs the Secretary to make available: (1) at least 24 percent of such sums appropriated in any fiscal year to junior or community colleges and the remainder to institutions planning to award a bachelor's degree during such year; and (2) at least 25 percent of such sums for four-to-seven year grants to institutions. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for challenge grants for fiscal years 1982 through 1985. Sets forth conditions of eligibility for grants for developing institutions. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirements if such waiver will increase higher education opportunities appropriate to the needs of: (1) American Indians (and the institution is located on or near an Indian reservation or a substantial population of Indians); (2) Spanish-speaking people; or (3) low-income people. Sets forth: (1) allowable purposes and durations of grants; (2) requirements for applications for assistance; (3) requirements for challenge grants; (4) provisions for assistance to developing institutions under other programs under such Act; and (5) limitations on the use of funds appropriated to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6115 (96th)reported
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1979
Amends the General Education Provisions Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the National Institute of Education for five fiscal years.
Bill· HRH.R. 6108 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1979
Elementary and Secondary School Student Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make elementary, secondary, and vocational students eligible for basic educational opportunity grants under such Act. Defines "elementary school" and "secondary school" for purposes of this Act as schools that are: (1) operated in accordance with applicable State law; and (2) tax exempt. Defines "vocational school" for purposes of this Act as such term is defined in the Vocational Education Act of 1963.
Bill· SS. 2096 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1979
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide for the design of a protocol for and the conduct of an epidemiological study to determine the long-term adverse health effects in persons of various populations (such as chemical, agricultural, and Forest Service workers) who were exposed to dioxins produced during the manufacture of phenoxy herbicides. Requires the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment to: (1) approve or disapprove such a protocol and submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report explaining the basis of such action; and (2) monitor the conduct of such a study and submit to the committees a report on such monitoring. Directs the Secretary to submit within two years of the approval of the protocol (and annually thereafter) to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the results of such study and recommendations. Requires the President to assure that such study is fully coordinated with other studies pertaining to the health effects of dioxins.
Bill· SS. 2071 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1979
Higher Education Military Service Student Loan Cancellation Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Commissioner of Education to repay or cancel specified amounts or percents of student loans made after October 1, 1975, under the federally insured or guaranteed and the national direct student loan programs, for military service after October 1, 1980 by the borrower. Provides that, for each complete year of service, amounts eligible to be repaid or cancelled are: (1) $500 or ten percent of the loan, for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces; or (2) $1,000 or 20 percent of the loan, whichever is greater, for enlisted members of the Armed Forces on active duty. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for such purposes for fiscal year 1981 through 1985. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe a fund allocation schedule during any year for which such appropriation is not sufficient to pay the sum of the amounts eligible for repayment or cancellation, giving priority for service that qualifies for special pay in an area of hostilities.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 297 (96th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of the Senate to furnish to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare a computer tape containing the name, social security number, and address of each Senate employee for the purpose of conducting a computer check to determine whether any Senate employees are indebted to the United States by reason of default on a student loan guaranteed and paid by the United States. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to report to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration the name of any employee so indebted together with the principal amount and total amount of indebtedness to the United States. Requires such committee to inform each employee, and the Senator, committee chairman, or officer of the Senate in whose office such employee is employed, of such indebtedness. Sets forth the procedure for repayment of such indebtedness. Prohibits public disclosure of the identity of any Senate employee listed in such report or the office in which such employee is employed.
Bill· HRH.R. 5898 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1979
Rattlesnake National Education and Recreation Area and Wilderness Act of 1979 - Designates specified lands within the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area in Montana as wilderness areas which shall be known as the Rattlesnake Wilderness and administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. Establishes the Rattlesnake National Education and Recreation Area and requires the Secretary to administer such Area in accordance with the laws and regulations applicable to the national forests. Requires the Secretary, in consultation with state and local political subdivisions and other interested persons, to develop an overall management plan for such Area. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to acquire with donated or appropriated funds, by exchange, gift, purchase, or otherwise, such non-Federal lands, interests, or any other property within the boundaries of the Rattlesnake National Education and Recreation Area. Requires the Secretary to establish a Rattlesnake Wildland Education and Research Center within the Rattlesnake National Education and Recreation Area for the purpose of public education about the Rattlesnake Wilderness, the Rattlesnake Education and Recreation Area, and all aspects of wildlands management.
Bill· HRH.R. 5869 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1979
Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to make the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education responsible for the promotion and coordination of Department programs of assistance to rural education and school districts.
Bill· HRH.R. 5842 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1979
Iranian Student Expulsion Act - Prohibits the making available of funds, authorized under any program to aid higher education, to any institution that enrolls or has enrolled on the date of enactment of this Act any person who is not a citizen of the United States and whose country of origin or residence immediately prior to entry into the United States is Iran. Prohibits making available funds authorized under any Federal program to any such person.
Bill· HRH.R. 5812 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1979
Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to make the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education responsible for the promotion and coordination of Department programs of assistance to rural education and school districts. Directs the Assistant Secretary to work with the Federal Interagency Committee on Education to coordinate related activities and programs of other Federal departments and agencies.
Bill· HRH.R. 5780 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1979
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and administer a program: (1) to alert women who received diethylstilbestrol (DES) while pregnant of the health hazards of such drug to them and to their daughters; and (2) under which such women and their daughters may be reimbursed for one-half the diagnosis and treatment costs incurred by them as a result of receiving such drug.
Bill· HRH.R. 5772 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1979
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include the acquisition of band instruments for the use of children and teachers in elementary and secondary schools for such uses as the school administration considers desirable among those purposes for which the Commissioner of Education is directed to carry out a program of making grants to States for libraries and learning resources.
Bill· SS. 1961 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1979
Higher Education Amendments of 1980 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (formerly directed the Commissioner of Education) to make resource development grants to institutions of higher learning and to other public and private nonprofit library institutions whose primary function is to provide library and information services to institutions of higher education on a formal cooperative basis. Authorizes the Secretary to make special purpose grants to: (1) institutions of higher education to meet special national or regional needs in library or information sciences; (2) combinations of such institutions for joint-use library facilities, resources, and equipment; and (3) other public and private nonprofit library institutions providing formal, cooperative library and information services to higher education institutions to improve such services. Requires recipients of such grants to expend specified matching sums. Directs the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education and library organizations or agencies to assist them in training persons in librarianship. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher public or private agencies, institutions, and organizations for research and demonstration projects related to library improvement, librarianship training, information technology, and dissemination of project information. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions with major resource libraries. Bars recipients of such grants from receiving other specified grants in the same fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes through fiscal year 1985. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to improve the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of developing institutions. Redefines "developing institution" as an "institution of higher education: (1) the enrollment of which includes a substantial percentage of students from low-income families; and (2) the average expenditures of which are low, per full-time equivalent student, in comparison with the average expenditures of institutions that offer similar instruction." Authorizes appropriations for such program for fiscal years 1980 through 1985. Sets forth formulas for allocating such appropriations to junior or community colleges, institutions awarding bachelor degrees, and for specified grants. Authorizes appropriations for a challenge grant program through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to waive specified requirements for eligibility for such assistance in order to increase higher education opportunities for American Indians or Spanish-speaking people. Authorizes the Secretary to award challenge grants to eligible developing institutions, including those which offer postgraduate, rather than bachelor's degrees. Sets forth purposes and directions of grants, requirements for applications for assistance, and limitations on use of funds. Establishes an Advisory Council on Developing Institutions to assist the Secretary in identifying developing institutions and establishing criteria for making grants to such institutions. Extends through the end of fiscal year 1985 the period during which the Commissioner of Education is directed to pay basic educational opportunity grants to eligible undergraduate students. Sets the maximum amount of each such grant on the basis of specified percentages of specified costs of attendance. Directs the Commissioner to make grants and contracts for special programs for disadvantaged students without regard to specified advertising requirements for Federal contracts. Authorizes appropriations for such program through fiscal year 1985. Sets forth requirements for eligibility in the Talent Search, Upward Bound, Special Services for Disadvantaged Students, and Educational Opportunity Centers programs. Requires that specified percentages of those participating in such programs be low-income individuals. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to provide training for staff and leadership personnel in such programs. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Student Loan Marketing Association to enter into agreements with eligible institutions for making low-interest loans to students directly through such institutions. Sets forth the terms of such agreement. Stipulates that: (1) the conditions of such loans shall be determined by the institutions, subject to any requirements or limitations prescribed by the Association; (2) the amount of such loans shall equal the cost of attendance minus any scholarships or other loans, the expected family income or self-help contribution, and any other Federal assistance; (3) such loans will be made to accepted or attending students in financial need who are carrying at least one-half the normal academic workload; and (4) such loans shall be evidenced by a written agreement. Stipulates with regard to repayment that: (1) the repayment period shall begin nine months after a student graduates or ceases to carry the required workload, and continue for a maximum of 15 years; (2) repayment may be in either equal or graduated installments at the option of the student borrower; (3) payments may be accelerated or paid in full without penalty; (4) the interest rate shall be seven percent; (5) no security or endorsement shall be required unless the student borrower is a minor; (6) the loan shall be cancelled upon the death or permanent total disability of the student borrower; (7) no repayment shall be required while the borrower is in school, or for up to three years while in the Armed Forces, Peace Corps, or a volunteer under the Domestic Volunteer Act of 1972; (8) repayment extensions may be made; and (9) partial loan cancellation shall be made for certain teaching positions and combat veterans. Establishes a loan program guaranteed by the Association to meet the cost of the expected family contribution under this Act. Authorizes necessary appropriations to the student loan insurance fund for such loans and related expenses. Transfers such fund's availability from the Commissioner of Education to the Association. Provides that the Association shall pay an eligible institution ten dollars per academic year for each enrolled student on whose behalf such family-contribution loan is made. Limits such new family-contribution loan to fiscal years 1981-1985, and prohibits any payment for existing loans after September 30, 1989. Stipulates with regard to such family-contribution loans: (1) the institution must certify to the lender the amount of the expected family contribution; (2) such loans shall be 100 percent insured; (3) the student must have been accepted, or already enrolled, on at least a half-time basis; (4) such loans will be made without security and without endorsement; (5) repayment shall begin no more than nine months after graduation or after the student ceases to be at least a half-time student, and shall be over a period of not less than five nor more than ten years; (6) principal need not be paid (but interest shall accrue) if the student is enrolled at least half-time (including graduate school), in a rehabilitation training program, or unable to find (for up to 12 months) full time employment; (7) interest, at a rate of one percent less than the Treasury rate, shall accrue and be paid during the term of the loan, except that such interest may be deferred until repayment of the principal starts; and (8) payments may be accelerated without penalty. Provides that, upon application by an eligible lender, the Association shall issue certificates of insurance covering the loan and setting forth the amount and terms of the insurance. Authorizes the Association to issue to a lender a certificate of comprehensive coverage to cover all qualifying loans made by such lender within a specified cutoff date and up to a specified aggregate maximum. Sets forth lender recovery procedures for any such defaulting borrowers. Provides that the Association shall repay the loans of bankrupt, diseased, or disabled borrowers. Revises provisions regarding special allowance payments to lenders to: (1) change the formula for computing such allowance; and (2) extend the five percent limit on such allowance from October 1, 1977, to October 1, 1980. Eliminates the provision providing for a District of Columbia student loan insurance program. Authorizes Federal credit unions to make family-contribution loans to eligible borrowers. Terminates existing lending programs (Guaranteed Student Loan Program and the National Direct Student Loan Program) six months after the enactment of this Act. Provides for the dissolution of the existing Student Loan Marketing Association and the assumption, and expansion, of such Association's functions by a newly created Association. Includes within such new Association's functions: (1) the authority to continue to purchase, sell, collect or otherwise deal in specified existing student loan programs; and (2) the authority to contract with State guaranty agencies (and compensate them for services) for collecting student loans, distributing loan funds to institutions, monitoring and auditing student loan programs, and providing technical assistance and information regarding such loans. Authorizes the Association to issue notes, bonds, or other obligations with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides that the obligations of the Association shall constitute general obligations of the United States. Authorizes additional appropriations to carry out a program of assistance for training in the legal profession through fiscal year 1985.
Law· HRH.R. 5766 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1979
Provides an alternative eight-year (unless otherwise extended) term of service in the Reserve as one of the requirements for a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (R.O.T.C.) scholarship. Stipulates that such service may include periods of active duty, active duty for training, and other active or inactive service. Increases the maximum number of such scholarship recipients in the Army program from 6,500 to 12,000. Authorizes additional scholarships to be awarded to eligible students at a military junior college. Defines "military junior college" as a civilian postsecondary educational institution essentially military in nature that does not confer baccalaureate degrees and that meets other requirements as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army. Establishes eligibility criteria for such scholarship recipients, including: (1) United States citizenship; (2) enlistment in an Army Reserve unit; and (3) service as a commissioned officer in the Army Reserve or the National Guard for at least eight years. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to order a scholarship recipient who does not complete the course of instruction, or who refuses to accept a commission upon completion of instruction, to serve on active duty for up to four years. Authorizes the Secretary to delay the commencement of such Reserve service until completion of a graduate or undergraduate degree.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 466 (96th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1979
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 5192 (Higher Education Act amendments).
Bill· HRH.R. 5680 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1979
Higher Education Amendments of 1980 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (formerly directed the Commissioner of Education) to make resource development grants to institutions of higher learning and to other public and private nonprofit library institutions whose primary function is to provide library and information services to institutions of higher education on a formal cooperative basis. Authorizes the Secretary to make special purpose grants to: (1) institutions of higher education to meet special national or regional needs in library or information sciences; (2) combinations of such institutions for joint-use library facilities, resources, and equipment; and (3) other public and private nonprofit library institutions providing formal, cooperative library and information services to higher education institutions to improve such services. Requires recipients of such grants to expend specified matching sums. Directs the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education and library organizations or agencies to assist them in training persons in librarianship. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher learning public or private agencies, institutions, and organizations for research and demonstration projects related to library improvement, librarianship training, information technology, and dissemination of project information. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions with major resource libraries. Bars recipients of such grants from receiving other specified grants in the same fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes through fiscal year 1985. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to improve the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of developing institutions. Redefines "developing institution" as an institution of higher education: (1) the enrollment of which includes a substantial percentage of students from low-income families; and (2) the average expenditures of which are low, per full-time equivalent student, in comparison with the average expenditures of institutions that offer similar instruction. Authorizes appropriations for such program for fiscal years 1980 through 1985. Sets forth formulas for allocating such appropriations to junior or community colleges, institutions awarding bachelor degrees, and for specified grants. Authorizes appropriations for a challenge grant program through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to waive specified requirements for eligibility for such assistance in order to increase higher education opportunities for American Indians or Spanish-speaking people. Authorizes the Secretary to award challenge grants to eligible developing institutions, including those which offer postgraduate, rather than bachelor's degrees. Sets forth purposes and directions of grants, requirements for applications for assistance, and limitations on use of funds. Establishes an Advisory Council on Developing Institutions to assist the Secretary in identifying developing institutions and establishing criteria for making grants to such institutions. Extends through the end of fiscal year 1985 the period during which the Commissioner of Education is directed to pay basic educational opportunity grants to eligible undergraduate students. Sets the maximum amount of each such grant on the basis of specified percentages of specified costs of attendance. Directs the Commissioner to make grants and contracts for special programs for disadvantaged students without regard to specified advertising requirements for Federal contracts. Authorizes appropriations for such program through fiscal year 1985. Sets forth requirements for eligibility in the Talent Search, Upward Bound, Special Services for Disadvantaged Students, and Educational Opportunity Centers programs. Requires that specified percentages of those participating in such programs be low-income individuals. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to provide training for staff and leadership personnel in such programs. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Student Loan Marketing Association to enter into agreements with eligible institutions for making low-interest loans to students directly through such institutions. Sets forth the terms of such agreement. States that: (1) the conditions of such loans shall be determined by the institutions, subject to any requirements or limitations prescribed by the Association; (2) the amount of such loans shall equal the cost of attendance minus any scholarships or other loans, the expected family income or self-help contribution, and any other Federal assistance; (3) such loans will be made to accepted or attending students in financial need who are carrying at least one-half the normal academic workload; and (4) such loans shall be evidenced by a written agreement. Stipulates with regard to repayment that: (1) the repayment period shall begin nine months after a student graduates or ceases to carry the required workload, and continue for a maximum of 15 years; (2) repayment may be in either equal or graduated installments at the option of the student borrower; (3) payments may be accelerated or paid in full without penalty; (4) the interest rate shall be seven percent; (5) no security or endorsement shall be required unless the student borrower is a minor; (6) the loan shall be cancelled upon the death or permanent total disability of the student borrower; (7) no repayment shall be required while the borrower is in school, or for up to three years while in the Armed Forces, Peace Corps, or a volunteer under the Domestic Volunteer Act of 1972; (8) repayment extensions may be made; and (9) partial loan cancellation shall be made for certain teaching positions and combat veterans. Establishes a loan program guaranteed by the Association to meet the cost of the expected family contribution under this Act. Authorizes necessary appropriations to the student loan insurance fund for such loans and related expenses. Transfers such fund's availability from the Commissioner of Education to the Association. Provides that the Association shall pay an eligible institution ten dollars per academic year for each enrolled student on whose behalf such family-contribution loan is made. Limits such new family-contribution loan to fiscal years 1981-1985, and prohibits any payment for existing loans after September 30, 1989. Stipulates with regard to such family-contribution loans: (1) the institution must certify to the lender the amount of the expected family contribution; (2) such loans shall be 100 percent insured; (3) the student must have been accepted, or already enrolled, on at least a half-time basis; (4) such loans will be made without security and without endorsement; (5) repayment shall begin no more than nine months after graduation or after the student ceases to be at least a half-time student, and shall be over a period of not less than five nor more than ten years; (6) principal need not be paid (but interest shall accrue) if the student is enrolled at least half-time (including graduate school), in a rehabilitation training program, or unable to find (for up to 12 months) full time employment; (7) interest, at a rate of one percent less than the Treasury rate, shall accrue and be paid during the term of the loan, except that such interest may be deferred until repayment of the principal starts; and (8) payments may be accelerated without penalty. Provides that, upon application by an eligible lender, the Association shall issue certificates of insurance covering the loan and setting forth the amount and terms of the insurance. Authorizes the Association to issue to a lender a certificate of comprehensive coverage to cover all qualifying loans made by such lender within a specified cutoff date and up to a specified aggregate maximum. Sets forth lender recovery procedures for any defaulting borrowers. Provides that the Association shall repay the loans of bankrupt, diseased, or disabled borrowers. Revises provisions regarding special allowance payments to lenders to: (1) change the formula for computing such allowance; and (2) extend the five-percent limit on such allowance from October 1, 1977, to October 1, 1980. Eliminates the provision providing for a District of Columbia student loan insurance program. Authorizes Federal credit unions to make family-contribution loans to eligible borrowers. Terminates existing lending programs (Guaranteed Student Loan Program and the National Direct Student Loan Program) six months after the enactment of this Act. Provides for the dissolution of the existing Student Loan Marketing Association and the assumption, and expansion, of such Association's functions by a newly created Association. Includes within such new Association's functions: (1) the authority to continue to purchase, sell, collect or otherwise deal in specified existing student loan programs; and (2) the authority to contract with State guaranty agencies (and compensate them for services) for collecting student loans, distributing loan funds to institutions, monitoring and auditing student loan programs, and providing technical assistance and information regarding such loans. Authorizes the Association to issue notes, bonds, or other obligations with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides that the obligations of the Association shall constitute general obligations of the United States. Authorizes additional appropriations to carry out a program of assistance for training in the legal profession through fiscal year 1985.
Bill· HRH.R. 5632 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1979
Prohibits payments to any State for administration costs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 if such State has determined eligibility or amounts of State aid to local educational agencies for free public education, or has lowered the available amounts of such aid, on the basis of Federal payments to such agencies in areas affected by Federal activity.
Bill· HRH.R. 5600 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1979
Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to make the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education responsible for the promotion and coordination of Department programs of assistance to rural education and school districts. Directs the Assistant Secretary to work with the Federal Interagency Committee on Education to coordinate related activities and programs of other Federal departments and agencies.
Bill· HRH.R. 5569 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1979
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include the acquisition of band instruments for the use of children and teachers in elementary and secondary schools for such uses as the school administration considers desirable among those purposes for which the Commissioner of Education is directed to carry out a program of making grants to States for libraries and learning resources.
Bill· HRH.R. 5567 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1979
Abolishes the Department of Education. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to conclude the outstanding affairs of the Department. Stipulates that unexpended funds related to the Department shall be available to the Director to conclude such affairs until the end of the fifth fiscal year after the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted and shall be returned to the general fund of the Treasury thereafter.
Bill· SS. 1870 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1979
Guaranteed Student Loan Improvement Act of 1979 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the federally insured student loan program to students enrolled for not less than two nor more than six credit hours of courses required for a degree or certificate. Allows repayment to be deferred: (1) for each consecutive year such study is continued, not to exceed a maximum deferred period of four years and nine months; or (2) beyond such period only if the student is enrolled half-time or more, not to exceed a maximum of eight years and nine months from the beginning of study. Limits such loans to $1,500 per academic year and $6,000 in the aggregate for the insured unpaid principal amount of the loan. Extends the national direct student loan program to such less than half-time students, with the same $1,500 yearly and $6,000 aggregate limits on such loans. Authorizes eligible institutions, in their discretion, to make loans to such students from not more than ten percent of the funds available for direct student loans at such institutions. Extends the Federal student loan insurance program through fiscal year 1986 for new student loans and through fiscal year 1990 for loans to enable students with prior insured loans to continue or complete their education. Sets a $3,000 limit on the total of loans made to an independent undergraduate student in any academic year which may be covered by Federal loan insurance. Raises the limitations on aggregate unpaid principal amounts for all such insured loans to $12,500 (from $7,500) for non-independent undergraduate students, to $15,000 for independent undergraduate students, and to $25,000 (from $15,000) for graduate or professional students. Makes similar changes in limitations on State and nonprofit institution loan insurance programs which receive Federal payments to reduce student interest costs or which are reimbursed under Federal loan insurance supplemental guaranty agreements. Authorizes the Commissioner to increase the limits applicable to graduate and professional students pursuing exceptionally expensive programs. Includes among those permitted to defer repayment of principal on Federally insured student loans; officers in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, full-time disabled or unable to secure employment because of the care required by a temporarily disabled spouse. Permits similar deferments under specified student loan programs insured by States or nonprofit institutions. volunteers with specified tax-exempt organizations, interns, and those temporarily totally Directs the Commissioner to enter into cooperative agreements with credit bureau organizations providing for the exchange of information concerning students borrowers. Requires that such agreements provide that: (1) the Commissioner disclose only accurate and complete information and not disclose that a loan is in default until a reasonable effort has been made to collect the debt; (2) such organizations will be promptly notified, and will promptly record, changes submitted by the Commissioner or objections by the borrower with respect to such information, (3) no unfair, unreasonable, harassing, or misleading collection practices will result; and (4) the Commissioner will notify the borrower that such information will only be disclosed after a reasonable period has passed (at least 30 days from the date such notice has been sent) in which such borrower has failed to enter into repayment. Directs the Commissioner to notify promptly any borrower of any such disclosure. Requires that written agreements evidencing federally-insured student loans contain notice of such system of disclosure and provide that the lender on request of the borrower will inform such credit bureaus of the repayment status of the note. Authorizes the Commissioner to provide eligible lenders, and State or nonprofit organizations having specified guaranty agreements, any relevant information from whatever source with respect to borrowers. Permits parents of a dependent undergraduate student to borrow, under the same terms as other guaranteed student loans, up to $3,000 per student per academic year and up to $15,000 as an aggregate insured principal for loans on account of any one student. Prohibits such borrowing to pay for the expenses of more than three students in any academic year. Provides for annual insurable limits, deferments of repayment of principal, and interest rates for such loans. Directs the Secretary to insure such loans in a State only if the State does not do so within a specified period. Prohibits the payment of special allowances on loans made or purchased with funds obtained from specified sources or on loans pledged as security to obtain specified funds. Sets forth the conditions under which special allowances must be paid to specified agencies. Deletes provisions for a Committee on the Process of Determining Student Loan Special Allowances. Redefines student eligibility for federally insured student loans to include maintaining satisfactory progress in the course of study, not owing a refund on previous grants or being in default on specified student loans, and filing a statement that such funds will be used solely for educational purposes. Directs the Commissioner to make payments in specified amounts to State or private nonprofit agencies which have entered into agreements to provide student loan insurance programs and which provide a lender referral service to eligible students. Authorizes appropriations for such payments. Sets forth requirements for the types of security which must be made on warehousing advances made by the Student Loan Marketing Association and for the use of proceeds from such advances. Requires that student loans set aside pursuant to the offering of participations or pooled interests be adequate at all times to ensure timely principal and interest payments on such securities. Includes lenders with less than $100,000,000 (formerly $50,000,000) in deposits among those permitted to condition student loans upon the student or the student's family maintaining a business relationship with the lender. Permits the Board of Directors of the Student Loan Marketing Association to fix from time to time the par value of its shares of common stock. Terminates the requirements that the Secretary prescribe regulations for the maximum number of shares of such stock which may be issued or be outstanding at any one time. Includes nonvoting common stock among such stock for which dividends may be declared. Authorizes the Association to issue nonvoting stock, which shall be freely transferable. Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from conditioning approval of issuance of obligations by the Association on such obligations being made or sold to the Federal Financing Bank. Extends through fiscal year 1984 the authority of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to guarantee payment on such obligations. Requires prompt Government action on Association requests for approvals to issue such obligations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase such obligations, within specified limits. Authorizes the Association to sell or issue obligations on the security of guaranteed student loans to the Federal Financing Bank. Authorizes the Association to make new insurable loans to specified borrowers to discharge the liability on old student loans. Authorizes the Association to make insurable student loans whenever the Secretary after consulting with representatives of a State determines that a substantial portion of all eligible borrowers in a State or within an area of substantial population within a State are unable to obtain student loans. Stipulates that the Association in making such loans shall not be deemed a creditor for any purposes of the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Declares that the Truth in Lending Act shall not apply to any guaranteed student loans. Authorizes States and nonprofit private institutions or organizations which have specific student loan program agreements with the Commissioner to consolidate multiple loans into a single loan at the student borrower's election and to establish income contingent repayment schedules for such loans. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such purposes. Directs the Commissioner to prescribe regulations for payment to such States or nonprofit entities. Extends the authorization for appropriations for the National Direct Student Loans program through Fiscal year 1985. Changes the dates during which there shall be a capital distribution of the assets from student loan funds to after fiscal year 1984 and not later than March 31, 1985, with provision for distribution of specified excess assets prior to fiscal year 1985. Raises the limit on the aggregate of loans for all years made by an institution of higher education from National Direct Student Loan funds from $10,000 to $12,000 for graduate or professional students, from $5,000 to $6,000 for undergraduates who have completed two years towards the bachelor's degree, and from $2,500 to $3,000 for any other students. Includes among those permitted to defer, for specified periods, repayment of principal of, or interest on, National Direct Student Loans: officers in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, full-time volunteers with specified tax-exempt organizations, interns, and those temporarily totally disabled or unable to secure employment because of the care required by a temporarily disabled spouse. Requires that agreements with institutions for Federal contributions to National Direct Student Loan Funds provide that the Commissioner will provide to such institutions any relevant information, from whatever service, on borrowers. Directs the Commissioner to enter into cooperative agreements with credit bureau organizations to exchange information concerning student borrowers in default for specified periods. Requires that student loan agreements contain notice of such system of information disclosure. Removes the limitation on the aggregate of the amount of specified Federal capital contributions paid for any fiscal year to proprietary institutions of higher education. Raises the interest rate on national direct student loans from three percent to seven percent per year. Stipulates that the amount of a national direct student loan and interest on such loan, which has been cancelled for certain public service shall not be considered taxable income. Revises the formulas and procedures by which the administrative expenses of student assistance programs are compensated by the Federal Government. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to administer such compensation. Includes among required information which participating institutions must give to all students: (1) special facilities and services available to handicapped students; and (2) names of entities which accredit, approve or license the institution and its programs. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to make available to eligible institutions descriptions of Federal student assistance programs. Extends the annual authorization of appropriations, for the Student Financial Assistance Training Program through fiscal year 1986. Terminates all authority for such program at the end of fiscal year 1986. Directs the Secretary to publish annually in the Federal Register a proposed schedule of expected family contributions for an academic year for various levels of family income for the purpose of determining a student's need for financial assistance. Directs the Commissioner to provide interested parties an opportunity for comments and recommendations during a 30-day period following such publication. Requires such schedule to be submitted to Congress and, if either House of Congress adopts a resolution of disapproval, directs the Commissioner to publish a new schedule. Directs the Commissioner to promulgate regulations concerning the determination of such expected family contribution, as well as special regulations for determining the expected family contribution and effective family income of an independent student, in accordance with specified basic criteria, including a standard for determining if a married student is dependent of parents. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations necessary to carry out such title, including regulations for the limitation, suspension or termination of the eligibility for any student assistance program of any otherwise eligible institution upon determination, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing on the record, that such institution has violated or failed to carry out specified provisions, agreements or regulations. Limits such periods of suspension to sixty days, with specified exceptions. Directs the Secretary to prescribe a single application form for determining a student's need and eligibility for financial assistance under such title. Establishes, as an independent agency within the executive branch, a National Commission on Student Financial Assistance. Directs the Commission to make a report and recommendations to the President and the Congress on specified issues relating to the financing of student loans. Authorizes the Commission to accept grants, gifts, or bequests. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the work of the Commission.
Bill· SS. 1855 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1979
Amends the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978 to authorize the appropriation of $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1981 and 1982 for the provision of technical assistance for tribally controlled community colleges by the Secretary of the Interior.
Bill· SS. 1853 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1979
Teacher Corps Amendments Act of 1979 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Teacher Corps program through fiscal year 1982.
Bill· SS. 1841 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1979
Education Amendments of 1980 - Title I: Establishment of a New Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a new title I "Education Outreach Programs." Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to States to conduct comprehensive statewide planning for improving access to postsecondary education for traditional and nontraditional learners, coordinating education and occupational information services for youth and adults, and coordinating all continuing education programs. Sets forth formulas and procedures for determining the allotment of such funds to each State. Sets forth formulas to determine the percentage of grant funds which may be spent on statewide studies, information services, and continuing education. Authorizes the States to make grants to public and private institutions and organizations for such purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to make Federal discretionary grants to promote and develop postsecondary and continuing education. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1985, with 90 percent of such sums designated for State programs and ten percent for Federal discretionary grants. Title II: Amendment and Extension of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Changes the title II heading to: College and Research Library Assistance and Library Training and Research. Directs the Secretary (formerly directed the Commissioner of Education) to make resource development grants to institutions of higher learning and to other public and private nonprofit library institutions whose primary function is to provide library and information services to institutions of higher education on a formal cooperative basis. Limits the amount of such grants to $10,000 each. Directs the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education and library organizations or agencies to assist them in training persons in librarianship. Requires that at least 50 percent of such grants be for establishing and maintaining fellowships and traineeships. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education and other public or private agencies, institutions, and organizations for research and demonstration projects related to library improvement, librarianship training, information technology, and dissemination of project information. Authorizes the Secretary to make special purpose grants to: (1) institutions of higher education to meet special national or regional needs in library or information sciences; (2) combinations of such institutions for joint-use library facilities, resources, and equipment; and (3) other public and private nonprofit library institutions providing formal, cooperative library and information services to higher education institutions to improve such services. Requires recipients of such grants to expend specified matching sums. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions with major resource libraries. Bars recipients of such grants from receiving other specified grants in the same fiscal year. Establishes a National Periodical Center and a National Periodical Center Corporation. Directs the Corporation to establish a national system to provide reliable and timely document delivery from a comprehensive collection of periodical literature. Provides for the authority to carry out Corporation functions, a Board of Directors, a Director and Staff, nonprofit status, and corporatte powers. Directs the Corporation to report to the President and Congress each year. Title III: Amendment to Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to improve the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of developing institutions. Redefines "developing institution" as "an institution of higher education: (1) the enrollment of which includes a substantial percentage of students from low-income families; and (2) the average expenditures of which are low, per full-time equivalent student, in comparison with the average expenditures of institutions that offer similar instruction." Authorizes appropriations for such program for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Sets forth formulas for allocating such appropriations to junior or community colleges, institutions awarding bachelor degrees, and for specified grants. Authorizes appropriations for a challenge grant program through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to waive specified requirements for eligibility for such assistance in order to increase higher education opportunities for American Indians or Spanish-speaking people. Authorizes the Secretary to award challenge grants to eligible developing institutions, including those which offer postgraduate, rather than bachelor's, degrees. Sets forth purposes and durations of grants, requirements for applications for assistance, and limitations on the use of funds granted pursuant to this Title. Title IV: Student Assistance - Extends through the end of fiscal year 1986 the period during which the Commissioner of Education is directed to pay basic educational opportunity grants to eligible undergraduate students. Redefines student eligibility requirements for such basic grants to include attendance at an eligible institution, carrying at least one-half the normal full-time workload, maintaining satisfactory progress in the course of study, not owing a refund on previous grants or being in default on a student loan, and filing a statement that such funds will be used solely for educational purposes. Sets the maximum amount of each such grant for academic years 1981-1982 through 1985-1986. Requires that such grant payments be made in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary (formerly by the Commissioner). Requires that a schedule of reductions, in case of insufficient funds, be established by the Secretary and that such schedule provide for a uniformly increasing percentage reduction as the entitlement decreases and that no payment less than $200 shall be made. Extends through fiscal year 1985 the requirement that entitlements be paid only if certain minimum amounts for specified programs are appropriated. Eliminates provisions for payments to institutions of higher education to cover information and administrative costs of the basic grant program and for multiple State processing of student aid. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1985 to enable the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to make payments to eligible institutions of higher education for supplemental grants to undergraduate students. Raises the limit on the amount of each such grant to $2,000 per academic year. Allows the $200 minimum payment requirement to be reduced proportionately for students enrolled for less than a full academic year. Eliminates the requirement that the Commissioner prescribe criteria and schedules for the guidance of institutions in determining student need. (Prescribes such criteria and directs the Secretary to publish such schedules, later in this Act). Redefines institutional eligibility criteria for such programs to include a program participation agreement with the Secretary (formerly with the Commissioner), continued spending of funds from other sources in its scholarship and student aid program, proper and efficient administration of funds, reporting to the Secretary, and providing financial aid information to students. Redefines student eligibility requirements for such supplemental grants to include attendance at an eligible institution, settlement of previous grants or being in default on a student loans, the filing of a statement that such funds will be used for educational purposes, and demonstration of financial need in accordance with specified criteria which include expected family contribution as prescribed by the Secretary. Prohibits eligible institutions from using more than ten percent of its allocation for less-than-half- time undergraduate students in need of such grants. Transfers to the Secretary specified duties of the Commissioner relating to the apportionment and allocation of funds to States for undergraduate student assistance. Extends through fiscal year 1985 the authorization of appropriations for payments to States for student incentive grants. Directs the Commissioner to allot, from 80 percent of appropriations in excess of $76,500,000 in any fiscal year, for such incentive grants a specified proportion to States which have met specified spending requirements, with the remainder to all other States. Raises the limit on the amount of such incentive grants to $2,000 per individual per academic year. Requires that State programs receiving such funds maintain specified levels of State expenditures under such programs. Adds the training of persons serving or preparing for service in a special program for disadvantaged students as an element to be funded under such special program. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants and contracts for such a program without regard to specified advertising requirements for Federal contracts. Removes public agencies and organizations from among the entities which may receive such grants and contracts. Authorizes appropriations for such program through fiscal year 1985. Sets forth requirements for eligibility in the Talent Search, Upward Bound, Special Services for Disadvantaged Students, and Educational Opportunity Centers programs. Requires that specified percentages of those participating in such programs be low-income individuals and/or first-generation college students. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to provide training for staff and leadership personnel in such programs. Extends the program of Veterans' cost-of-instruction payments to institutions of higher education through fiscal year 1985 for specified institutions and through any academic year ending before the end of fiscal year 1986 for specified institutions. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to administer such program. Eliminates the requirement that only an institution with fewer than 2,500 students in attendance may carry carry out such program through a consortium agreement with other institutions. Lowers to $100,000 (formerly $135,000) the maximum amount of such program payments in any fiscal year to any one institution and its branches. Raises the percentage (from 75 to 90) of such amount which must be spent to maintain a full-time office of veterans' affairs. Extends the Federal student loan insurance program through fiscal year 1986 for new student loans and through fiscal year 1990 for loans to enable students with prior insured loans to continue or complete their education. Sets a $3,000 limit on the total of loans made to an independent undergraduate student in any academic year which may be covered by Federal loan insurance. Raises the limitations on aggregate unpaid principal amounts for all such insured loans to $12,500 (from $7,500) for non-independent undergraduate students, to $15,000 for independent undergraduate students, and to $25,000 (from $15,000) for graduate or professional students. Makes similar changes in limitations on State and nonprofit institution loan insurance programs which receive federal payments to reduce student interest costs or which are reimbursed under Federal loan insurance supplemental guaranty agreements. Authorizes the Commissioner to increase the limits applicable to graduate and professional students pursuing exceptionally expensive programs. Includes among those permitted to defer repayment of principal on federally-insured student loans: officers in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, full-time volunteers with specified tax- exempt organizations, interns, and those temporarily totally disabled or unable to secure employment because of the care required by a temporarily disabled spouse. Permits similar deferments under specified student loan programs insured by States or nonprofit institutions. Directs the Commissioner to enter into cooperative agreements with credit bureau organizations providing for the exchange of information concerning student borrowers. Requires that such agreements provide that: (1) the Commissioner disclose only accurate and complete information and not disclose that a loan is in default until a reasonable effort has been made to collect the debt; (2) such organizations will be promptly notified of, and will promptly record, changes submitted by the Commissioner or objections by the borrower with respect to such information; (3) no unfair, unreasonable, harassing, or misleading collection practices will result; and (4) the Commissioner will notify the borrower that such information will only be disclosed after a reasonable period has passed (at least 30 days from the date such notice was sent) in which such borrower has failed to enter into repayment. Directs the Commissioner to notify promptly any borrower of any such disclosure. Requires that written agreements evidencing federally insured student loans contain notice of such system of disclosure and provide that the lender on request of the borrower will inform such credit bureaus of the repayment status of the note. Authorizes the Commissioner to provide eligible lenders, and State or nonprofit organizations having specified guaranty agreements, any relevant information from whatever source with respect to borrowers. Permits parents of a dependent undergraduate student to borrow, under the same terms as other guaranteed student loans, up to $3,000 per student per academic year and up to $15,000 as an aggregated insured principal for loans on account of any one student. Prohibits such borrowing to pay for the expenses of more than three students in any academic year. Provides for annual insurable limits, deferments of repayment of principal, and interest rates for such loans. Directs the Secretary to insure such loans in a State only if the State does not do so within a specified period. Prohibits the payment of special allowance on loans made or purchased with funds obtained from specified tax-exempt securities or on loans pledged as security to obtain specified funds. Sets forth the conditions under which special allowances must be paid to specified agencies. Deletes provisions for a Committee on the Process of Determining Student Loan Special Allowances. Redefines student eligibility requirements for federally insured student loans to include: maintaining satisfactory progress in the course of study, not owing a refund on previous grants or being in default on specified student loans, and filing a statement that such funds will be used solely for educational purposes. Directs the Commissioner to make payments in specified amounts to State or private nonprofit agencies which have entered into agreements to provide student loan insurance programs and which provide a lender referral service to eligible students. Authorizes appropriations for such payments. Sets forth requirements for the types of security which must be made on warehousing advances made by the Student Loan Marketing Association and for the use of proceeds from such advances. Requires that student loans set aside pursuant to the offering of participations or pooled interests be adequate at all times to ensure timely principal and interest payments on such securities. Includes lenders with less than $100,000,000 (formerly $50,000,000) in deposits among those permitted to condition student loans upon the student or the student's family maintaining a business relationship with the lender. Permits the Board of Directors of the Student Loan Marketing Association to fix from time to time the par value of its shares of common stock. Terminates the requirements that the Secretary prescribe regulations for the maximum number of shares of such stock which may be issued or be outstanding at any one time. Includes nonvoting common stock among such stock for which dividends may be declared. Authorizes the Association to issue nonvoting stock, which shall be freely transferable. Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from conditioning approval of issuance of obligations by the Association on such obligations being made or sold to the Federal Financing Bank. Extends through fiscal year 1984 the authority of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to guarantee payment on such obligations. Requires prompt Government action on Association requests for approvals to issue such obligations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase such obligations, within specified limits. Authorizes the Association to sell or issue obligations on the security of guaranteed student loans to the Federal Financing Bank. Authorizes the Association to make new insurable loans to specified borrowers to discharge the liability on old student loans. Authorizes the Association to make insurable student loans whenever the Secretary, after consulting with representatives of a State determines that a substantial portion of all eligible borrowers in a State or within an area of substantial population within a State are unable to obtain student loans. Stipulates that the Association in making such loans shall not be desired a creditor for any purposes of the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Declares that the Truth in Lending Act shall not apply to any guaranteed student loans. Extends the authorization of appropriations for work-study programs through fiscal year 1985. Directs the Commissioner to allot not to exceed one percent of such appropriations among Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Virgin Islands according to their respective needs for work-study programs. Includes Puerto Rico among "States" for purposes of allotments of work-study funds. Requires that specified reallotments of funds be available for grants for work-study programs until the close of the second fiscal year next succeeding the fiscal year for which appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary (formerly authorized the Commissioner) to enter into agreements under which the Secretary will make grants to eligible institutions to assist in the operation of work-study programs. Revises conditions for such agreements to require: (1) that the work required will not pay less than the current Federal minimum wage; and (2) that only students who demonstrate financial need and who meet specified eligibility requirements will be assisted. Repeals additional requirements for such agreements with area vocational schools. Requires that ten percent of work-study sums granted to an eligible institution remain available for expenditure during the succeeding fiscal year. Authorizes the Commissioner to use up to ten percent of the sums which an eligible institution may receive from appropriations for a fiscal year to make grants to such institution during the preceding fiscal year. Raises from $15,000 to $25,000 the limitation on the amount of work-study funds which eligible institutions may use to establish or expand job location and development programs if such amount is less than ten percent of the allotment. Extends the authorization for appropriations for the National Direct Student Loans program through fiscal year 1985. Changes the dates during which there shall be a capital distribution of the assets from student loan funds to after fiscal year 1984 and not later than March 31, 1985, with provision for distribution of specified excess assets prior to fiscal year 1985. Raises the limit on the aggregate of loans for all years made by an institution of higher education from National Direct Student Loan funds from $10,000 to $12,000 for graduate or professional students, from $5,000 to $6,000 for undergraduates who have completed two years towards the bachelor's degree, and from $2,500 to $3,000 for any other students. Includes among those permitted to defer, for specified periods, repayment of principal of, or interest on, National Direct Student Loans: officers in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, full- time volunteers with specified tax-exempt organizations, interns, and those temporarily totally disabled or unable to secure employment because of the care required by a temporarily disabled spouse. Requires that agreements with institutions for Federal contributions to National Direct Student Loan funds provide that the Commissioner will provide to such institutions any relevant information, from whatever source, on borrowers. Directs the Commissioner to enter into cooperative agreements with credit bureau organizations to exchange information concerning student borrowers in default for specified periods. Requires that student loan agreements contain notice of such system of information disclosure. Removes the limitation on the aggregate of the amount of specified Federal capital contributions paid for any fiscal year to proprietary institutions of higher education. Stipulates that the amount of a national direct student loan, and interest on such loan, which has been cancelled for certain public service shall not be considered taxable income. Revises the formulas and procedures by which the administrative expenses of student assistance programs are compensated by the Federal government. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to administer such compensation. Includes among required information which participating institutions must give to all students: (1) special facilities and services available to handicapped students; and (2) names of entities which accredit, approve or license the institution and its programs. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to make available to eligible institutions descriptions of Federal student assistance programs. Extends the annual authorization of appropriations for the Student Financial Assistance Training Program through fiscal year 1986. Terminates all authority for such program at the end of fiscal year 1986. Directs the Secretary to publish annually in the Federal Register a proposed schedule of expected family contributions for an academic year for various levels of family income for the purpose of determining a student's need for financial assistance. Directs the Commissioner to provide interested parties an opportunity for comments and recommendations during a 30-day period following such publication. Requires such schedule to be submitted to Congress and, if either house of Congress adopts a resolution of disapproval, directs the Commissioner to publish a new schedule. Directs the Commissioner to promulgate regulations concerning the determination of such expected family contributions, as well-as special regulations for determining the expected family contribution and effective family income of an independent student, in accordance with specified basic criteria, including a standard for determining if a married student is independent of parents. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations necessary to carry out this title, including regulations for the limitation, suspension or termination of the eligibility for any student assistance program of any otherwise eligible institution upon determination, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing on the record, that such institution has violated or failed to carry out specified provisions, agreements, or regulations. Limits such periods of suspension to sixty days, with specified exceptions. Directs the Secretary to prescribe a single application form for determining a student's need and eligibility for financial assistance under this title. Establishes, as an independent agency within the executive branch, a National Commission on Student Financial Assistance. Directs the Commission to make a report and recommendations to the President and Congress on specified issues relating to the financing of student loans. Authorizes the Commission to accept grants, gifts, or bequests. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the work of the Commission. Title V: Amendment and Extension of Title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Extends authorizations of appropriations for the Teacher Corps Program and for Teacher Training Programs through fiscal year 1985. Removes the limit on the rate of compensation for teacher interns in the Teacher Corps program. Directs the Commissioner to allocate teacher training program grants so as to most nearly provide an equitable geographical distribution of grants throughout the States when appropriations in any fiscal year are less than the $50,000,000 level requirement for one teacher center per State. Includes "educational service agencies" among those entities which may operate teacher centers. Includes "collaboration with one or more institutions of higher education which serve teachers" in the definition of teacher centers. Permits institutions of higher learning to apply for grants to plan, establish, and operate teachers' centers either separately or together with other such institution or with local educational agencies. Ends the authorization of local educational agencies with approved applications to contract with institutions of higher education. Authorizes the Commissioner to use not less than ten percent of teacher center program funds as grants to institutions of higher education for the operation of teacher centers. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to schools of education for the training of educational personnel for specified purposes. Authorizes the Commissioner to make such grants for model projects for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Authorizes the Commissioner to enter into agreements with associations or consortia of schools of education for planning programs to diversify and redirect curricula. Directs the Commissioner to develop criteria for determining the regions of the country in which associations and consortia of schools of education are to be established. Limits such grants to any such association or consortium to $200,000 in any fiscal year. Requires that such cooperative agreements be first approved by the State education agency in the State in which the applicant is located. Title VI: Establishment of a New Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Establishes a new title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965, "Foreign Studies and Language Development." Terminates the program of grants to institutions of higher education for the improvement of undergraduate instruction through acquisition of equipment, including television equipment and by minor remodeling. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or contracts with institutions of higher learning for establishing, equipping, and operating, modern foreign language studies, foreign area studies, and international studies programs and centers. Authorizes the Secretary to pay stipends to individuals undergoing advanced training in such centers or or programs, upon reasonable assurance that recipients will be available for teaching or other public service. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education and to nonprofit organizations for graduate and undergraduate centers of international studies. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to contracts with any public or private agency or organization for educational programs to promote U.S. student understanding of the cultures and actions of other nations. Directs the Secretary to distribute such throughout the Nation on a broad and equitable geographical basis. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Repeals the foreign studies and language development program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Title VII: Amendment to Title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Directs the Secretary (formerly directed the Commissioner) to assist institutions of higher education and higher education building agencies to construct, reconstruct, or renovate academic facilities and acquire special, equipment for: (1) energy use economy; (2) conforming with specified legal requirements relating to access for the handicapped, environmental protection, or health and safety; (3) research facilities, including libraries; or (4) coping with unusual increases in enrollment. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes through fiscal year 1985. Raises to $100,000 the minimum amount allotted to any State for any fiscal year for grants to all institutions of postsecondary education other than public community colleges and public technical institutes. Requires that each State's allotment be ratably reduced if appropriations are not sufficient. Terminates the program of assistance for construction of academic facilities and replacement of equipment and supplies by public institutions of higher education in major disaster areas. Title VIII: Cooperative Education - Increases the amount of appropriations authorized for fiscal years 1980 through 1982 for grants to institutions of higher education for programs of cooperative education. Allows such programs to provide parallel, as well as alternate, periods of academic study and of public or private employment. Increases the amount of appropriations for specified training, demonstration, or research grants or contracts for fiscal years 1981 and 1982, and extends such authorization through fiscal year 1985. Raises the limits on the amounts of grants for cooperative education programs made to any one institution of higher education and to combinations of such institutions. Title IX: Graduate Programs - Extends the authorization of appropriations for financial assistance to graduate and professional programs through fiscal year 1985. Changes one of the authorized activities for which such funds may be used from "expansion" to "maintenance and improvement of quality" of such programs. Directs the Commissioner to gather data necessary for the periodic assessment of the state of U.S. graduate education and to submit a special report to Congress on the financing of graduate education. Extends the authority of the Commissioner to award graduate fellowships, public service fellowships, and fellowships for other purposes through fiscal year 1985. Includes among the criteria for a plan to be used by the Commissioner in allocating public service fellowships that such plan will insofar as practicable attract persons of ability from disadvantaged backgrounds. Authorizes additional appropriations to carry out a program of assistance for training in the legal profession through fiscal year 1985. Extends the authority of the Commissioner to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public and private agencies and organizations other than institutions of higher education to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to train for the legal profession. Removes the three- month limit on preliminary training for such individuals. Title X: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of postsecondary education and other public and nonprofit private educational institutions and agencies to improve postsecondary education opportunities. Requires that such grants or contracts be submitted to appropriate State commissions for their comments and recommendations. Establishes a National Board of the fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education to advise the Secretary and the Director of the Fund. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title through fiscal year 1985. Repeals the provisions of the General Education Provisions Act relating to the fund for the improvement of postsecondary education. Title XI: Establishment of a New Title XI of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Establishes a new Title XI of the Higher Education Act of 1965: "Urban Grant University Program." Directs the Commissioner to carry out programs to aid urban universities in finding answers to urban problems and in making their resources more readily and effectively available to their urban communities. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to urban universities for such urban-oriented projects. Requires that applicants for grants show that the chief executives of the local governments within whose jurisdictions fall the needs to be addressed by such proposed projects, have had an opportunity for review and comment. Sets forth guidelines for the Commissioner in approving such projects. Directs the Commissioner to designate institutions receiving such grants as urban grant universities and to publish an annual list of such institutions. Prescribes limitations on the amounts of individual grants and of the portion allotted to individual States. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1985 for Law School Clinical Experience Programs established pursuant to the Higher Education Act of 1965. Title XII: General Provisions - Repeals specified provisions relating to State Postsecondary Education Commissions, Comprehensive Statewide Planning, the Advisory Council on Graduate Education, cost of education data, and funding requirements of title XII of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Requires States to enter into agreements with the Secretary setting forth terms and conditions for the relationship between the Federal Government and each individual State for the purposes set forth in specified programs under this Act in order to receive assistance under such programs.
Bill· SS. 1839 (96th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1979
Higher Education Amendments of 1979 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend through fiscal year 1985 the authorizations of appropriations for: community services and continuing education programs; college library assistance in library training and research; strengthening developing institutions; student assistance; Teacher Corps and teacher training programs; financial assistance for the improvement in undergraduate instruction; construction, reconstruction, and renovation of academic facilities; cooperative education; graduate programs; community college establishment and expansion; and comprehensive statewide planning. Extends the period during which specified student loans are made which are eligible for Federal payments to reduce student interest costs through fiscal year 1985 for first loans and through fiscal year 1989 for subsequent loans to enable a student to continue in an educational program. Includes the Northern Mariana Islands in the definition of "State" for purposes of the construction, reconstruction and renovation of academic facilities provisions of such Act, as well as generally throughout such Act. Amends the General Education Provisions Act to extend through fiscal year 1985 the authorizations of appropriations for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education and the National Institute of Education. Amends the National Defense Education Act of 1958 to extend through fiscal year 1985 the authorization of appropriations for foreign studies and language development programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Allen J. Ellender Fellowship Program through fiscal year 1985.
Bill· SS. 1840 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1979
Education Amendments of 1979 Title I: Amendment to Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend through fiscal year 1985 the authorization of appropriations for community service and continuing education programs. Transfers the duties and authority for such programs from the Commissioner of Education to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Sets the minimum yearly allotment to any State for continuing education programs at $25,000. Title II: Amendment to Title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Changes the title II heading to: College and Research Library Assistance and Library Training and Research. Authorizes the Secretary (formerly directed the Commissioner of Education) to make resource development grants to institutions of higher learning and to other public and private nonprofit library institutions whose primary function is to provide library and information services to institutions of higher education on a formal cooperative basis. Authorizes the Secretary to make special purpose grants to: (1) institutions of higher education to meet special national or regional needs in library or information sciences; (2) combinations of such institutions for joint- use library facilities, resources, and equipment; and (3) other public and private nonprofit library institutions providing formal, cooperative library and information services to higher education institutions to improve such services. Requires recipients of such grants to expend specified matching sums . Directs the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education and library organizations or agencies to assist them in training persons in librarianship. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education and other public or private agencies, institutions, and organizations for research and demonstration projects related to library improvement, librarianship training, information technology, and dissemination of project information. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions with major resource libraries. Bars recipients of such grants from receiving other specified grants in the same fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes through fiscal year 1985. Title III: Amendment to Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to improve the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of developing institutions. Redefines "developing institution" as "an institution of higher education: (1) the enrollment of which includes a substantial percentage of students from low-income families; and (2) the average expenditures of which are low, per full-time equivalent student, in comparison with the average expenditures of institutions that offer similar instruction." Authorizes appropriations for such program for fiscal years 1980 through 1985. Sets forth formulas for allocating such appropriations to junior or community colleges, institutions awarding bachelor degrees, and for specified grants. Authorizes appropriations for a challenge grant program through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to waive specified requirements for eligibility for such assistance in order to increase higher education opportunities for American Indians or Spanish-speaking people. Authorizes the Secretary to award challenge grants to eligible developing institutions, including those which offer postgraduate, rather than bachelor's, degrees. Sets forth purposes and directions of grants, requirements for applications for assistance, and limitations on use of funds. Establishes an Advisory Council on Developing Institutions to assist the Secretary in identifying developing institutions and establishing criteria for making grants to such institutions. Title IV: Amendments to Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (formerly directed the Commissioner of Education) to pay basic educational opportunity grants to eligible undergraduate students through fiscal year 1985. Redefines student eligibility for such basic grants to include attending an eligible institution, carrying at least one-half the normal full-time workload, maintaining satisfactory progress in the course of study (according to specified criteria), not owing a refund on previous grants or being in default on a student loan, and filing a statement that such funds will be used solely for educational purposes. Sets the maximum amount of each such grant for any academic year at $1,800, except where yearly appropriations Acts stipulate a higher amount. Requires that such grant payments be made in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary (formerly by the Commissioner). Requires that a schedule of reductions, in case of insufficient funds, be established by the Secretary and that such schedule provide for a uniformly increasing percentage reduction as the entitlement decreases and that no payment less than $200 shall be made. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1985 to enable the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to make payments to eligible institutions of higher education for supplemental grants to undergraduate students. Raises the limit on the amount of each such grant to $2,000 per academic year. Raises the limit on the aggregate of such undergraduate grants to any one student to $8,000 (from $4,000), and to $10,000 (from $5,000) for students in special curricula or circumstances. Eliminates the requirement that the Commissioner prescribe criteria and schedules for the guidance of institutions in determining student need. (Prescribes such criteria and directs the Secretary to publish such schedules, later in this Act.) Redefines institution for such programs to include a program participation agreement with the Secretary (formerly with the Commissioner), continued spending of funds from other sources in its scholarship and student aid program, proper and efficient administration of funds, reporting to the Secretary, providing financial aid information to students, a fair and equitable tuition and fee refund policy, consideration for the special needs of handicapped students in awarding assistance, and insuring that the availability of Federal assistance will not result in increased tuition or fees. Redefines student eligibility for such supplemental grants to include attending an eligible institution, not owing a refund on previous grants or being in default on a student loan, filing a statement that such funds will be used for educational purposes, and demonstrating financial need in accordance with specified criteria which include expected family contribution as prescribed by the Secretary. Transfers to the Secretary specified duties of the Commissioner relating to the apportionment and allocation of funds to State's for undergraduate student assistance. Extends through fiscal year 1985 the authorization of appropriations for payments to States for student incentive grants. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to allot, from such appropriated sums, an amount to each State according to specified formulas and to make payments to eligible State student incentive grant programs according to specified formulas. Directs the Secretary to carry out programs to assist economically disadvantaged persons to enter or resume, and to successfully complete, programs of post-secondary education. Defines an "economically disadvantaged person" as one whose family's income is not greater than 150 percent of the official poverty line. Authorizes appropriations for such programs through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts for Talent Search and Educational Opportunity Centers, Upward Bound, and Special Services for Disadvantaged Students. Revises such programs descriptions and sets forth eligibility requirements for participation therein. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with institutions of higher education and other appropriate public agencies and nonprofit organizations to provide staff and leadership training for personnel specializing in improving delivery of services to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Transfers to the Secretary, from the Commissioner, duties relating to the making of grants to education information centers. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such centers through fiscal year 1985. Extends the program of veterans' cost-of-instruction payments to institutions of higher education through fiscal year 1985 for specified institutions and through any academic year ending before the end of fiscal year 1986 for specified institutions. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to administer such program. Eliminates the requirement that only an institution with less than 2,500 students in attendance may carry out such program through a consortium agreement with other institutions. Lowers to $100,000 (formerly $135,000) the maximum amount of such program payments in any fiscal year to any one institution and its branches. Raises the percentage (from 75 to 90) of such amount which must be spent to maintain a full-time office of veterans' affairs. Revises provisions for Federal, State, and private programs of low-interest loans to students in institutions of higher education by establishing a supplemental loans program to provide access to educational loans for students and their parents through loan insurance programs coordinated by the Government Student Loan Association. Transfers to the Association, from the Commissioner, responsibility for such programs. Includes insurance of all loans made to eligible borrowers by a lender, if the Association determines that student and parent access to State or private nonprofit loan insurance programs is inadequate in that State, among those items for which the Association is authorized to issue certificates of Federal loan insurance to a lender in a State. Requires that the total principal amount of new loans and installments paid pursuant to lines of credit to borrowers covered by Federal loan insurance under the supplemental loan program not to exceed the amount authorized in an appropriation Act for any fiscal year through fiscal year 1985. Sets forth eligibility standards for borrowers on Federally insured loans. Includes among eligible borrowers parents or legal guardians on whom students are financially dependent. Sets forth terms and conditions for such loans. Revises limits on the yearly and aggregate amounts of loans under such program and other loan programs in this Act and under the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Pledges the full faith and credit of the United States to the payment of all amounts which may be required to be paid under specified provisions for the default of borrowers under the Federal loan insurance program and for the repayment by the Association of loans of deceased or disabled borrowers. Authorizes the Association to request the Secretary of the Treasury to invest a portion of the student loan insurance fund which is not required for current operations. Requires that such investments be in public debt securities. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as the Association may require to redeem specified obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury. Deletes the authorization of appropriations for the District of Columbia Student Loan Insurance Program. Sets the special allowance paid to holders of eligible loans made on or after the effective date of this Act at the rate of two and one-half percent per year of the average unpaid balance of principal (not including unearned interest added to principal) of all eligible loans held by such holder during such period, subject to specified conditions. Deletes provisions relating to a Committee on the Process of Determining Student Loan Special Allowances. Repeals the authority, under the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Public Health Service, of the Student Loan Marketing Association to make advances on the security of, or purchase specified loans insured by the Government Student Loan Association, or by States or institutions or organizations with specified agreements, or by the Secretary. Stipulates that any loan under the supplemental loan program may be counted as part of the expected family contribution in the determination of need for grants, work-study, basic loans, and national direct student loans programs purposes. Declares that all of the functions, powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities of the Commissioner of Education with respect to loans made, and agreements entered into, under the authority of the Federally insured student loan program shall be transferred to the Government Student Loan Association. Extends the authorization of appropriations for work-study programs through fiscal year 1985. Transfers to the Secretary, from the Commissioner, various duties under such programs, including making allotments to States and establishing criteria for distribution of work-study assistance among institutions of higher education within a State, along with the authority to enter into agreements with eligible institutions to make grants to assist in their work-study programs and job location and development programs. Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare the Government Student Loan Association. Directs the Secretary to appoint officers and determine operational policies for such Association. Authorizes the Association to deal, in such amounts as appropriations Acts may provide, in loans insured under the supplemental loan program of this title and under the Federal program of insured loans to graduate schools and health profession schools of the Public Health Service Act. Directs the Association to establish the price, terms, and conditions of loan purchases, sales, and services and of security advanced with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Requires that such an advance on the security of a loan be made only upon the lender's agreement to use the advance to make similar insured loans. Stipulates that a security interest in an insured loan created on behalf of the Association or an eligible lender may be perfected through the taking of possession of the loan or by the filing of notice of such security interests in accounts. Authorizes the Association: (1) to assume specified liabilities of the Student Loan Marketing Association, upon transfer of specified obligations insured or held and of other assets; and (2) to purchase any real or personal property of such organization. Sets forth powers and duties of the Association. Authorizes the Association to assume all of the functions, powers, duties, rights and responsibilities of the Commissioner of Education for loans made, and agreements entered into, under the authority of the national direct student loan program of this title, and may also service and collect such loans on behalf of institutions that hold them. Directs the Association to carry out a basic student loan program for making low-interest loans to assist needy students to pursue studies at eligible institutions of higher education. Directs the Association to give preference, by regulation, to the neediest students. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1985 to carry out such program. Establishes a Basic Student Loan Fund within the Treasury of the United States for the Association to make payments authorized for the basic student loan program and the national direct student loan program. Authorizes the Association to request the Secretary of the Treasury to invest a portion of the student loan insurance fund which is not required for current operation. Requires that such investments be in public debt securities. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as the Association may require to redeem specified obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury. Authorizes the Association to make loans to eligible students (other than graduate students studying business, law, or medicine) who submit prescribed applications. Sets forth terms of basic student loans, including annual interest rates of seven percent or less according to specified formulas, and limits on such loans. Repeals the authorization of appropriations, under the national direct student loan program, for fiscal years 1979 through 1982 to enable students who received loans for academic years ending prior to October 1, 1979, to continue or complete courses of study. Revises the required provisions of agreements with institutions of higher education under the national direct student loan program to: (1) mandate that specified sums collected be deposited in the Basic Student Loan Fund (rather than the general fund of the Treasury); and (2) delete an entitlement for such institutions of specified payments in lieu of reimbursement for the administrative expenses of their student loan programs. Changes the dates of the period for a capital distribution of the balance of the student loan fund established by each institution of higher education under the national direct student loan program to September 30, 1980 through March 31, 1981 (formerly September 30, 1984 through March 31, 1985). Directs the Association to deposit all amounts received under such distribution and under such program in the Basic Student Loan Fund. Transfers to the Association all functions, powers, duties, rights and responsibilities of the Commissioner of Education with respect to specified loans and agreements. Revises the formulas and procedures by which the administrative expenses of student assistance programs are compensated by the Federal government. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to administer such compensation. Includes among required information which participating institutions must give to all students: (1) special facilities and services available to handicapped students; and (2) placement data for programs of study intended to prepare students for employment in particular fields. Directs the Secretary to publish annually in the Federal Register a proposed schedule of expected family contributions for an academic year for various levels of family income for the purpose of determining a student's need for financial assistance. Directs the Secretary to provide interested parties an opportunity for comments and recommendations during a 30-day period following such publication. Requires that a final schedule be submitted to specified officers and committees of Congress and become effective 60 days after submission, or earlier if such committees give notice of no objections to such schedule. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations concerning the determination of such expected family contribution, as well as special regulations for determining the expected family contribution of an independent student, in accordance with specified basic criteria. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations necessary to carry out this title, including regulations for the limitation, suspension or termination of the eligibility for any student assistance program of any otherwise eligible institution upon determination, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing on the record in the case of a limitation or termination, that such institution has violated or failed to carry out specified provisions, agreements, or regulations. Limits such periods of suspension to sixty days, with specified exceptions. Directs the Secretary to prescribe a single application for determining a student's need and eligibility for financial assistance under this title. Title V: Amendments to Title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Includes principals among those in Teacher Corps training and retraining programs and demonstration projects. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Teacher Corps Program and for Teacher Training Programs Through fiscal year 1985. Includes the teachers and administrators of the schools involved among those represented on an elected council to participate in the preparation of specified Teacher Corps Program arrangements. Removes the limit on the rate of compensation for teacher interns in the Teacher Corps Program. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to allocate teacher training programs grants so as to most nearly provide an equitable geographical distribution of grants throughout the States when appropriations in any fiscal year are less than the $50,000,000 level requirement for one teacher center per State. Transfers responsibility for Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs from the Commissioner to the Secretary. Title VI: Establishment of a New Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Establishes a new title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965: Foreign Studies and Language Development. Terminates the program of grants to institution of higher education to improve undergraduate instruction through acquisition of equipment, including television equipment and by minor remodeling. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or contracts with institutions of higher learning for establishing, equipping, and operating modern foreign language studies, foreign area studies, and international studies programs and centers. Authorizes the Secretary to pay stipends to individuals undergoing advanced training in such centers or programs, upon reasonable assurance that recipients will be available for teaching or other public service. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education and to nonprofit organizations for graduate and undergraduate centers of international studies. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or contracts with any public or private agency or organization for educational programs to promote U.S. student understanding of the cultures and actions of other nations. Directs the Secretary to distribute such throughout the Nation on a broad and equitable geographical basis. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Title VII: Amendments to Title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Extends the authorizations of appropriations for the programs of financial assistance for undergraduate and graduate academic facilities and the program of loans for the construction, reconstruction, and renovation of academic facilities through fiscal year 1985. Transfers responsibility for such programs from the Commissioner to the Secretary. Revises the required formula for determining the interest rate of such loans. Terminates the program of Assistance in Major Disaster Areas for construction of academic facilities and replacement of equipment and supplies by public institutions of higher education in such areas. Terminates the old program of Reconstruction and Renovation. Establishes a new program of Reconstruction and Renovation assistance. Directs the Secretary to assist institutions of higher education building agencies to reconstruct or renovate academic facilities and acquire special equipment for: (1) energy use economy; (2) conformity with specified legal requirements relating to access for the handicapped, environmental protection, or health and safety; and (3) research facilities. Directs the Secretary to carry out such program through a State grant program a direct grant program, and a program of making and insuring loans. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes through fiscal year 1985. Provides, under the State grant program, for State allotments, State plans basic criteria for determining priorities and Federal share, applications for grants, and amounts of grants. Provides for applications for, and amounts of, grants under the direct grant program. Sets forth eligibility conditions, amounts, and terms of loans and general provisions for the loan program. Creates within the Treasury a separate fund available to the Secretary for higher education reconstruction and renovation and special equipment acquisition loans and loan insurance. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual interest grants to private institutions of higher education and private higher education building agencies to reduce the cost of borrowing from other sources for such reconstruction, renovation or acquisition. Sets forth criteria for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to insure the payment of interest and principal on such loans to nonprofit private higher education institutions and nonprofit higher education building agencies which meet specified criteria. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to approve the interest rate, timing and other terms and conditions of such insured obligations and authorizes such Secretary to waive such requirement when such financing does not have a significant impact on the market for government and government guaranteed securities. Title VIII: Amendment to Title VIII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Extends through fiscal year 1985 the authorization of appropriations for programs of Cooperative Education. Removes specified limits on the amounts of grants for such programs. Transfers the authority to make grants for programs of cooperative education and grants and contracts for training and research in cooperation education from the Commissioner to the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts for projects demonstrating or exploring the feasibility or value of innovative methods of cooperative education. Title IX: Amendments to Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Extends the authorization of appropriations for grants to institutions of higher education for graduate programs through fiscal year 1985. Extends the authority of the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to award fellowships for study in graduate and professional programs. Transfers responsibility for such grant and fellowship programs from the Commissioner to the Secretary. Terminates the programs of public service fellowships, fellowships for other purposes, and general assistance for graduate schools, and the annual fellowship report. Retains the program of assistance for training in the legal profession. Transfers the authority to make grants and contracts for such program from the Commissioner to the Secretary. Extends such authority and the authorization of appropriations for such program through fiscal year 1985. Title X: Amendments to Title XII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Includes in the definition of "institutions of higher education" educational institutions in any State which provide an educational program for which they award graduate or professional degrees or which provide not less than a six-month (formerly one-year) program of training to prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation. Removes from such definition specified requirements involving accreditation or accreditation alternatives. Changes the definition of State to include "the Northern Mariana Islands" (formerly "the government of the Northern Mariana Islands"). Limits the definition of "State educational agency" to "the officer or agency primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools." Deletes the definition of "gifted and talented children." Title XI: Amendment to the General Education Provisions Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Title XII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals Title X (Establishment and Expansion of Community Colleges) and Title XI (Law School Clinical Experience Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Repeals Title VI (Foreign Studies and Language Development) of the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Repeals the International Education Act of 1966.
Bill· HRH.R. 5477 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1979
Elementary School Guidance and Counseling Incentive Act of 1979 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1985 for State allotments for comprehensive elementary school guidance and counseling programs, supplemental grants to States for elementary school guidance and counseling, and grants for demonstration and evaluation programs. Provides formulas for such State allotments, based on the population of elementary school children, with minimum required amounts. Directs the Commissioner of Education to administer State allotments and State plans through the Office of Guidance and Counseling of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Requires that each State, to be eligible for such allotments, submit to the Commissioner a State plan for providing comprehensive elementary school guidance and counseling programs for a five-year period, with necessary annual revisions, which meets such criteria as the Commissioner may by regulation prescribe. Sets forth required provisions of such plans and programs. Provides for appeal by a State of a final action of the Commissioner to a circuit court of appeals. Authorizes the Commissioner, through the Office of Guidance and Counseling, to make grants to States with approved plans for distribution to local educational agencies and for support of States with approved plans for distribution to local educational agencies and for support of State agency leadership activities on the basis of statewide needs and priorities in elementary school guidance and counseling. Sets forth approved uses of such grants. Directs the Commissioner, through the Office of Guidance and Counseling, to carry out a program of demonstration and evaluation relating to elementary school guidance and counseling. Sets forth approved types of demonstration and evaluation projects. Requires the Office of Guidance and Counseling to collect, analyze, prepare, and disseminate information related to the provision of guidance and counseling services to elementary school-age children. Requires specified State and local educational agencies to designate supervisors of elementary guidance services or programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 5474 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1979
Abolishes the Department of Education. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to conclude the outstanding affairs of the Department. Stipulates that unexpended funds related to the Department shall be available to the Director to conclude such affairs until the end of the fifth fiscal year after the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted and shall be returned to the general fund of the Treasury thereafter.
Bill· HRH.R. 5458 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1979
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to change from December 31, 1977, to December 31, 1978, the date on which the calendar quarter ends during which a State must show to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare its effective control over the utilization of certain inpatient care received in a hospital, skilled nursing facility, or intermediate care facility for the calendar quarters ending after January 1, 1977, and before October 1, 1977, in order to prevent a reduction in the Federal medical assistance percentage to the State.
Law· HRH.R. 5451 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1979
Maritime Education and Training Act of 1979 - Amends the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 to integrate existing provisions of Federal law concerning maritime education and training by the United States Merchant Marine Academy (Academy), State maritime colleges, and civilian nautical schools. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish minimum requirements and a system of competition for selecting candidates to the Academy. Prohibits granting any preference in the selection process to members of the families of Academy alumni. Requires the Panama Canal Commission to nominate candidates from the areas and installations made available to the United States pursuant to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 and related agreements. Authorizes the Secretary to make a limited number of noncompetitive appointments to the Academy each year. Requires each candidate who is a U.S. citizen, as a condition of appointment, to sign an agreement committing the candidate: (1) to complete instruction at the Academy; (2) to obtain and maintain an officer's license in the United States merchant marine for six years following graduation; (3) to apply for and, if tendered, accept a six-year appointment as a commissioned officer in the United States Naval Reserve; (4) in lieu of such appointment, to serve the U.S. national defense or foreign commerce for five years; and (5) to report to the Secretary on compliance with such agreement. Authorizes the Secretary to order any cadet who violates the agreement to active duty to serve the unexpired portion of required service. Authorizes the chairmen of the congressional committees having legislative jurisdiction over the Academy to designate committee staff members as staff members for the Board of Visitors of the Academy. Directs the Governors of the States or territories cooperating to sponsor a regional college to identify the State or territory to conduct the affairs of such college. Declares that a regional maritime college is eligible for Federal assistance on the same basis as a State maritime college. Authorizes the Secretary: (1) to pay the costs to such a regional or State college (college) for fuel used for training cruises; and (2) to provide for training of college students on Government-owned and subsidized vessels or other vessels. Requires the Secretary to assist the colleges with the operation and maintenance of new vessels. Stipulates that a college, as a condition for receiving Federal assistance or a training vessel, must require Students to pass the examination for an entry-level merchant marine officer's license. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to appoint students graduating from a college which receives Federal assistance as Reserve midshipmen of the U.S. Navy or to commission such students as Reserve ensigns in the Navy. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to college students. Requires that each student receiving a loan agree to certain conditions concerning use of the loan and post-graduate service obligations. Declares that such a loan shall be forgiven if the student: (1) completes all terms of the loan agreement; or (2) is separated from the college because of failure to meet the academic requirements of the college or the physical requirements for a merchant marine officer's license. Allows the Secretary to waive payment of the loan under specified circumstances. Includes service as an administrative enrollee of the United States Maritime Service (USMS) as Federal service for those enrollees appointed to civil service positions. Stipulates that: (1) such USMS service shall be counted either toward one periodic step increase or toward one additional step increase; and (2) after appointment to the civil service such enrollees are not entitled to certain USMS travel and health benefits. Authorizes the Secretary: (1) to lend surplus shipping equipment to the Academy, colleges, or other approved merchant marine training schools for instructional purposes; (2) to utilize resources of other Federal agencies, with the consent of such agencies, for maritime-education purposes; and (3) to employ instructors for maritime-education courses without regard to specified provisions of Federal law concerning the classification of civil service positions and General Schedule pay rates. Repeals certain provisions of Federal law relating to marine education and training.
Bill· HRH.R. 5429 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1979
Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish an Office of Private Education to be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Private Education. Terminates the Office of Non-Public Education.
Law· HRH.R. 5386 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1979
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to promulgate formulas by which any reduction in the 1980 appropriations for community service and continuing education programs will be borne equally by all States.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 423 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1979
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare should delay issuing final regulations under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (financial assistance to local educational agencies for education of children from low-income families) until the Secretary has undertaken a thorough review and completed a comprehensive revision of the regulations in consultation with representatives of groups whose membership includes parents, teachers, and administrators involved with implementing such title.
Bill· HRH.R. 5376 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1979
Requires that, from sums appropriated to carry out Community Service and Continuing Education Programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for fiscal year 1980, each State shall receive in such year a specified amount, according to a formula set forth in this Act, proportionate to the amount such State received under such programs for fiscal year 1979.
Bill· HRH.R. 5354 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1979
Freedom of Education Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer a 100 percent income tax credit for tuition paid for his elementary, secondary, vocational, or higher education, or that of his spouse or dependents. Requires full-time attendance at an educational institution. Defines "tuition" as fees required for the enrollment or attendance of a student at an educational institution, including fees for courses, books, supplies, or equipment for courses of instruction. Requires a dollar for dollar reduction of tuition amounts eligible for the credit by any amount the taxpayer or his dependents receive as a scholarship or an educational assistance allowance due to status as a veteran. Forbids any construction of this Act as granting the Government authority to examine the books or activities of church-controlled schools. Specifies that the allowance of a tax credit for payment of tuition to such schools shall not be considered as Federal assistance to such schools. Denies jurisdiction to any court to review the constitutionality of tuition tax credits granted by this Act.
Law· HRH.R. 5288 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1979
Veterans' Rehabilitation and Education Amendments of 1979 - Title I: Revision of Vocational Rehabilitation Program - Revises veterans' vocational rehabilitation provisions to declare the purpose of this Act to be to provide all services necessary to enable veterans with service- connected disabilities to attain maximum independence, to become employable, and to obtain and maintain suitable employment. Redefines "vocational rehabilitation" to include the provision of all services required to achieve the purpose of this Act, including discharge, medical, social, psychological, economic, and vocational services (presently defined in terms of educational and vocational training to restore employability). Defines "employment handicap" as a disability impairing a veteran's ability to prepare for, obtain, or retain employment consistent with his or her abilities, aptitudes, and interests. Revises entitlement provisions to: (1) make eligibility run as of September 16, 1940, (rather than World II as at present); (2) require a handicap to be an employment handicap as defined by this Act; and (3) provide for follow up vocational services to a rehabilitated veteran in order for such veteran to enter new employment more suitable to his or her current capacity or condition. Eliminates the language extending eligibility for specified veterans to October 15, 1971. Sets forth the scope of services, including: (1) evaluation of rehabilitation potential; (2) educational, vocational, and personal counseling; (3) a vocational rehabilitation plan; (4) vocational and related services including tutorial services, tuition, books, and other training materials; (5) treatment for mental and emotional disorders; (6) medical care; (7) prosthetic and other corrective devices; (8) placement and postplacement services; (9) services to a veteran's family; (10) special rehabilitation services, including services for the blind and the deaf; (11) subsistence allowances; (12) essential employment equipment and supplies for severely disabled veterans requiring homebound training and or self-employment; (13) transportation costs, including pre- and post-training services; and (14) work study allowance, loans, and other incidental goods and services. Revises duration of services provisions to: (1) provide basic vocational rehabilitation services for 48 months; (2) remove the nine year (from discharge) eligibility limitation; and (3) provide a 12 month rehabilitation evaluation period. Revises subsistence allowances provisions to: (1) provide for payments during the evaluation of vocational rehabilitation period; (2) provide payments for unpaid on-job training or work experience in a Federal agency or during such evaluation period; (3) pay room and board expenses for individuals pursuing a program on a residential basis in a specialized rehabilitation facility; (4) provide that vocational payments be paid on a full-time basis for two months following a determination of employability; (5) set forth the rate of payment for individuals in unpaid Federal training or work experience; (6) prohibit payments to incarcerated individuals; and (7) provide for advance payment of subsistence allowances. Authorizes personal adjustment counseling and counseling during the evaluation of rehabilitation feasibility period. Sets forth basic requirements of a vocational rehabilitation program, which shall include: (1) participation by the veteran in formulation of a written plan; and (2) a statement of objectives and goals, services and a time schedule for providing such services, and a projected completion date. Revises leave of absence provisions to remove the 30 day per year limitation on such leave. Revises the regulation of conduct provisions to remove the three-month forfeiture of subsistence allowance penalty for unsatisfactory conduct and to replace the permanent disqualification for further vocational rehabilitation penalty with a provision allowing the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to reinstate such benefits upon satisfactory conduct. Increases the maximum amount of loans available to a veteran from $200 to $400. Authorizes vocational rehabilitation to veterans hospitalized (not pending final discharge) in VA or non-VA medical facilities. Authorizes vocational training outside the United States (presently prohibited for post-World War II veterans who were not citizens at the time of their United States military service). Provides that any Federal agency's facilities may be used to provide unpaid training or work experience as part of a veteran's vocational rehabilitation program. States that such a veteran shall be deemed a Federal employee for workmens' compensation purposes but not for the purposes of laws administered by the Office of Personnel Management. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to use the facilities, staff, and other resources of any Federal agency to provide services under this Act. Directs the Administrator to assist in the development of employment and on-job training opportunities, including payments to employers for providing on-job training to certain veterans. Directs the Veterans Administration (VA) to: (1) provide employment assistance, including direct employment placement, utilization of Federal, State, and nonprofit private employment services and securing loans and paying business license fees; (2) provide vocational rehabilitation staff training and development; and (3) carry out an ongoing program of rehabilitation research and special projects, including grants and contracts with public and nonprofit agencies. Directs the Administrator to appoint a Veterans' Advisory Committee on Rehabilitation. Revises provisions concerning the limitation on periods of assistance under two or more veterans' educational assistance programs to include post-Vietnam era benefits within such limitation, and to provide a 48 month aggregate eligibility period for vocational rehabilitation and other educational assistance. Title II: GI Bill Educational Assistance Program Amendments: Part A - Educational Assistance for Veterans - Authorizes the Administrator to disapprove a veteran's or serviceperson's application for educational assistance if enrollment would be prohibited by any of the appropriate administrative provisions. Eliminates the 50 percent employment reporting requirement for courses if: (1) veteran and eligible dependent or survivor enrollment does not exceed 35 percent of total enrollment (for the two-year reporting period); and (2) the course had met the employment requirements for two consecutive reporting periods. Eliminates the requirement that a major portion of an open circuit television course must require conventional classroom or laboratory attendance in order to be approved by the Administrator for assistance. Eliminates computing persons receiving Federal educational assistance from the "85-15" enrollment eligibility requirement. Eliminates the course completion time provision as a requirement for satisfactory educational progress with regard to discontinuance of educational assistance. Revises foreign study provisions to authorize such study if: (1) the course is part of a standard college degree program (or its equivalent) at an institution of higher learning so recognized by the foreign country; and (2) the Administrator approves. Provides that an incarcerated veteran pursuing a program of education shall be paid at the same rate as half-time and active duty recipients. Authorizes assistance for continuing education or training required by Federal, State, or local law for professional or vocational relicensure or continued employment. Provides that such continuing education shall be paid at the same rate as refresher training. Stipulates that educational assistance for a veteran pursuing an eligible (as revised by this Act) open circuit television course shall be paid in the same manner as an independent study program. Part B - Educational Assistance for Dependents and Survivors of Veterans - Authorizes the Administrator to disapprove an eligible survivor's or dependent's application for educational assistance if enrollment would be prohibited by any of the appropriate administrative provisions. Prohibits such individuals from enrolling in an educational institution not located in a State or in the Republic of the Philippines unless: (1) the course is part of a standard college degree (or its equivalent) at an institution of higher learning so recognized by the foreign country; and (2) the Administrator approves. Revises provisions concerning advance educational assistance payments to such individuals to: (1) authorize direct payments to an eligible individual (presently payments must be made to a parent or guardian); (2) eliminate certain certification requirements; (3) provide that payments for an eligible (as revised by this Act) open circuit television course shall be paid in the same manner as an independent study program; and (4) provide that an incarcerated individual pursuing a program of education shall be paid at the same rate as half-time and active duty recipients. Part C - Amendments Relating to Administration of Educational Benefits - Revises provisions concerning the period for which educational or subsistence allowances will be paid for eligible veterans or persons to provide that: (1) the individual must be pursuing a course of study (presently required to be enrolled); (2) the Administrator shall determine regulations regarding eligibility; and (3) payment shall be for the stated period of enrollment, or the actual period of enrollment, whichever is shorter. Requires veterans and other individuals to report any changes in their educational status to the Administrator. Requires educational institutions to report any facts that they know or should have known concerning their compliance with, or eligibility for, such educational assistance. Revises overpayment provisions to: (1) make individual recipients liable (presently only the educational institution is liable); and (2) provide that a waiver of individual liability shall not release such institution from liability. Includes "residence" in the definition of a full-time undergraduate course. Defines "in residence on a standard quarter- or semester-hour basis" to require pursuit of regularly scheduled weekly class instruction on campus at the rate of one standard class session per week throughout the semester for one semester hour of credit. Provides for payments to veterans and eligible persons attending non-degree courses during periods between terms which do not exceed 15 calendar days and periods when the school is not in session because of teacher conferences or teacher training sessions (not to exceed five days in any 12-month period). Terminates the (veterans') education advisory committee as of December 31, 1989. Includes post-Vietnam era veterans' educational assistance, and deletes vocational rehabilitation, within such committee's responsibility. Title III: Repeal of Authority to Pursue Predischarge Education Training (PREP) Under Chapter 32 - Repeals specified provisions authorizing servicepersons to participate in the predischarge education training program (PREP). Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Administrator to release information to a consumer credit agency concerning veterans' benefits debts to: (1) obtain current addresses of debtors; (2) obtain credit reports in order to assess a debtor's ability to repay; and (3) give notice of the outstanding obligation. Prohibits the VA from making such disclosure until 30 days have elapsed after reasonable efforts have been made to notify the individual of the VA's intention to disclose debt information. Prohibits disclosure of such information by the VA in a case of a disputed claim until the accuracy of the information is determined or until the Administrator reviews such claim. Provides that records disclosed to a consumer reporting agency may be used only for the purpose provided for by this Act, and that the Privacy Act does not apply to such disclosure. Authorizes the disclosure by the Administrator of names and addresses from use in a collection proceeding for debts owed for any Veterans' Administration benefits program. Includes required drills and field exercises within the category of National Guard activities which are considered active duty for training for purposes of veterans' reemployment rights. Defines "person" for purposes of veterans' survivors and dependents special restorative training to mean children of veterans. Title V: Effective Date - Provides that the provisions of this Act shall take effect on the first day of the second month after the date of enactment of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5268 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1979
Authorizes the Veterans' Administration to use its own legal counsel to pursue civil remedies for the collection of overpayments of educational assistance made to eligible veterans and dependents and for the collection of defaulted educational loans.
Bill· HRH.R. 5264 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1979
Lifelong and Continuing Education Act of 1979 - Amends title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965: (1) to repeal provisions of such title dealing with community service and continuing education programs, including the National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education; and (2) to establish a new title I "Lifelong and Continuing Education" which is to make education and training opportunities available to all citizens throughout life. Authorizes appropriations for purposes of this Act through fiscal year 1985. Stipulates that ten percent of such appropriated funds shall be used for comprehensive State planning programs. Provides that individual, eligible States shall receive such funds based on population, with a minimum grant of $25,000. Authorizes a State to request that a part of its allotment be transferred to another State for certain purposes. Requires that 75 percent of the appropriations authorized to carry out this Act be available to States, with specified State agreements, for: (1) planning, establishing, and operating educational and career services programs; and (2) grants to institutions and organizations. Sets forth required minimum amounts to be reserved to each individual State, with specified agreements, to pay the Federal share of the cost of such programs. Requires that the Federal share of such programs be 66 2/3 percent for any fiscal years. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants and enter into contracts with public and private agencies, institutions, organizations, businesses, labor, and individuals for specified projects and programs relating to lifelong and continuing education from 15 percent of the appropriations authorized to carry out this Act. Prohibits the award of such grants or contracts unless the Secretary has provided the appropriate State agency an opportunity to comment on the relevance of the proposed grant or contract to comprehensive statewide planning. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make a written determination prior to such award as to relevance to or consistency with such planning; and (2) consult with the National Advisory Council on Lifelong and Continuing Education on developing priorities and criteria for allocating funds for such Federal discretionary grants. Requires States wishing to receive Federal funds for comprehensive planning programs and grants to institutions of higher education to submit an agreement. Sets forth guidelines for such agreements. Transfers responsibility for continuing education programs from the Assistant Secretary to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Directs the Secretary to: (1) foster improved coordination of Federal support for lifelong and continuing education programs across Federal agencies; (2) maintain a clearinghouse for information on lifelong and continuing education; (3) study the removal of financial barriers to adult participation in such education; and (4) make a progress report to the President and the Congress. Directs the President to appoint a National Advisory Council on Lifelong and Continuing Education within 90 days of enactment of this Act. Repeals the Education Information grants to State programs provisions of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act through fiscal year 1985.
Bill· HRH.R. 5210 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1979
Education Amendments of 1979 Title I: Amendment to Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend through fiscal years 1985 the authorization of appropriations for community service and continuing education programs. Transfers the duties and authority for such programs from the Commissioner of Education to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Sets the minimum yearly allotment to any State for continuing education programs at $25,000. Title II: Amendment to Title II of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Changes the title II heading to: College and Research Library Assistance and Library Training and Research. Authorizes the Secretary (formerly directed the Commissioner of Education) to make resource development grants to institutions of higher learning and to other public and private nonprofit library institutions whose primary function is to provide library and information services to institutions of higher education on a formal cooperative basis. Authorizes the Secretary to make special purpose grants to: (1) institutions of higher education to meet special national or regional needs in library or information sciences; (2) combinations of such institutions for joint- use library facilities, resources, and equipment; and (3) other public and private nonprofit library institutions providing formal, cooperative library and information services to higher education institutions to improve such services. Requires recipients of such grants to expend specified matching sums . Directs the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education and library organizations or agencies to assist them in training persons in librarianship. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education and other public or private agencies, institutions, and organizations for research and demonstration projects related to library improvement, librarianship training, information technology, and dissemination of project information. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions with major resource libraries. Bars recipients of such grants from receiving other specified grants in the same fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes through fiscal year 1985. Title III: Amendment to Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to improve the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of developing institutions. Redefines "developing institution" as "an institution of higher education: (1) the enrollment of which includes a substantial percentage of students from low-income families; and (2) the average expenditures of which are low, per full-time equivalent student, in comparison with the average expenditures of institutions that offer similar instruction. Authorizes appropriations for such program for fiscal years 1980 through 1985. Sets forth formulas for allocating such appropriations to junior or community colleges, institutions awarding bachelor degrees, and for specified grants. Authorizes appropriations for a challenge grant program through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to waive specified requirements for eligibility for such assistance in order to increase higher education opportunities for American Indians or Spanish-speaking people. Authorizes the Secretary to award challenge grants to eligible developing institutions, including those which offer postgraduate, rather than bachelor's, degrees. Sets forth purposes and directions of grants, requirements for applications for assistance, and limitations on use of funds. Establishes an Advisory Council on Developing Institutions to assist the Secretary in identifying developing institutions and establishing criteria for making grants to such institutions. Title IV: Amendments to Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (formerly directed the Commissioner of Education) to pay basic educational opportunity grants to eligible undergraduate students through fiscal year 1985. Redefines student eligibility for such basic grants to include attending an eligible institution, carrying at least one-half the normal full-time workload, maintaining satisfactory progress in the course of study (according to specified criteria), not owing a refund on previous grants or being in default on a student loan, and filing a statement that such funds will be used solely for educational purposes. Sets the maximum amount of each such grant for any academic year at $1,800, except where yearly appropriations Acts stipulate a higher amount. Requires that such grant payments be made in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary (formerly by the Commissioner). Requires that a schedule of reductions, in case of insufficient funds, be established by the Secretary and that such schedule provide for a uniformly increasing percentage reduction as the entitlement decreases and that no payment less than $200 shall be made. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1985 to enable the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to make payments to eligible institutions of higher education for supplemental grants to undergraduate students. Raises the limit on the amount of each such grant to $2,000 per academic year. Raises the limit on the aggregate of such undergraduate grants to any one student to $8,000 (from $4,000), and to $10,000 (from $5,000) for students in special curricula or circumstances. Eliminates the requirement that the Commissioner prescribe criteria and schedules for the guidance of institutions in determining student need. (Prescribes such criteria and directs the Secretary to publish such schedules, later in the bill. Redefines institutional eligibility for such programs to include a program participation agreement with the Secretary (formerly with the Commissioner), continued spending of funds from other sources in its scholarship and student aid program, proper and efficient administration of funds, reporting to the Secretary, providing financial aid information to students, a fair and equitable tuition and fee refund policy, consideration for the special needs of handicapped students in awarding assistance, and insuring that the availability of Federal assistance will not result in increased tuition or fees. Redefines student eligibility for such supplemental grants to include attending an eligible institution, not owing a refund on previous grants or being in default on a student loan, filing a statement that such funds will be used for educational purposes, and demonstrating financial need in accordance with specified criteria which include expected family contribution as prescribed by the Secretary. Transfers to the Secretary specified duties of the Commissioner relating to the apportionment and allocation of funds to State's for undergraduate student assistance. Extends through fiscal year 1985 the authorization of appropriations for payments to States for student incentive grants. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to allot, from such appropriated sums, an amount to each State according to specified formulas and to make payments to eligible State student incentive grant programs according to specified formulas. Directs the Secretary to carry out programs to assist economically disadvantaged persons to enter or resume, and to successfully complete, programs of post-secondary education. Defines an "economically disadvantaged person" as one whose family's income is not greater than 150 percent of the official poverty line. Authorizes appropriations for such programs through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts for Talent Search and Educational Opportunity Centers, Upward Bound, and Special Services for Disadvantaged Students. Revises such programs descriptions and sets forth eligibility requirements for participation therein. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with institutions of higher education and other appropriate public agencies and nonprofit organizations to provide staff and leadership training for personnel specializing in improving delivery of services to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Transfers to the Secretary, from the Commissioner, duties relating to the making of grants to education information centers. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such centers through fiscal year 1985. Extends the program of veterans' cost-of-instruction payments to institutions of higher education through fiscal year 1985 for specified institutions and through any academic year ending before the end of fiscal year 1986 for specified institutions. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to administer such program. Eliminates the requirement that only an institution with less than 2,500 students in attendance may carry out such program through a consortium agreement with other institutions. Lowers to $100,000 (formerly $135,000) the maximum amount of such program payments in any fiscal year to any one institution and its branches. Raises the percentage (from 75 to 90) of such amount which must be spent to maintain a full-time office of veterans' affairs. Revises provisions for Federal, State, and private programs of low-interest loans to students in institutions of higher education by establishing a supplemental loans program to provide access to educational loans for students and their parents through loan insurance programs coordinated by the Government Student Loan Association. Transfers to the Association, from the Commissioner, responsibility for such programs. Includes insurance of all loans made to eligible borrowers by a lender, if the Association determines that student and parent access to State or private nonprofit loan insurance programs is inadequate in that State, among those items for which the Association is authorized to issue certificates of Federal loan insurance to a lender in a State. Requires that the total principal amount of new loans and installments paid pursuant to lines of credit to borrowers covered by Federal loan insurance under the supplemental loan program not to exceed the amount authorized in an appropriation Act for any fiscal year through fiscal year 1985. Sets forth eligibility standards for borrowers on Federally insured loans. Includes among eligible borrowers parents or legal guardians on whom students are financially dependent. Sets forth terms and conditions for such loans. Revises limits on the yearly and aggregate amounts of loans under such program and other loan programs in this Act and under the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Pledges the full faith and credit of the United States to the payment of all amounts which may be required to be paid under specified provisions for the default of borrowers under the Federal loan insurance program and for the repayment by the Association of loans of deceased or disabled borrowers. Authorizes the Association to request the Secretary of the Treasury to invest a portion of the student loan insurance fund which is not required for current operations. Requires that such investments be in public debt securities. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as the Association may require to redeem specified obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury. Deletes the authorization of appropriations for the District of Columbia Student Loan Insurance Program. Sets the special allowance paid to holders of eligible loans made on or after the effective date of this Act at the rate of two and one-half percent per year of the average unpaid balance of principal (not including unearned interest added to principal) of all eligible loans held by such holder during such period, subject to specified conditions. Deletes provisions relating to a Committee on the Process of Determining Student Loan Special Allowances. Repeals the authority, under the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Public Health Service, of the Student Loan Marketing Association to make advances on the security of, or purchase specified loans insured by the Government Student Loan Association, or by States or institutions or organizations with specified agreements, or by the Secretary. Stipulates that any loan under the supplemental loan program may be counted as part of the expected family contribution in the determination of need for grants, work-study, basic loans, and national direct student loans programs purposes. Declares that all of the functions, powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities of the Commissioner of Education with respect to loans made, and agreements entered into, under the authority of the Federally insured student loan program shall be transferred to the Government Student Loan Association. Extends the authorization of appropriations for work-study programs through fiscal year 1985. Transfers to the Secretary, from the Commissioner, various duties under such programs, including making allotments to States and establishing criteria for distribution of work-study assistance among institutions of higher education within a State, along with the authority to enter into agreements with eligible institutions to make grants to assist in their work-study programs and job location and development programs. Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare the Government Student Loan Association. Directs the Secretary to appoint officers and determine operational policies for such Association. Authorizes the Association to deal, in such amounts as appropriations Acts may provide, in loans insured under the supplemental loan program of this title and under the Federal program of insured loans to graduate schools and health profession schools of the Public Health Service Act. Directs the Association to establish the price, terms, and conditions of loan purchases, sales, and services and of security advances with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Requires that such an advance on the security of a loan be made only upon the lender's agreement to use the advance to make similar insured loans. Stipulates that a security interest in an insured loan created on behalf of the Association or an eligible lender may be perfected through the taking of possession of the loan or by the filing of notice of such security interest in the loan in the manner provided by State law for perfection of security interests in accounts. Authorizes the Association: (1) to assume specified liabilities of the Student Loan Marketing Association, upon transfer of specified obligations insured or held and of other assets; and (2) to purchase any real or personal property of such organization. Sets forth powers and duties of the Association. Authorizes the Association to assume all of the functions, powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities of the Commissioner of Education for loans made, and agreements entered into, under the authority of the national direct student loan program of this title, and may also service and collect such loans on behalf of institutions that hold them. Directs the Association to carry out a basic student loan program for making low-interest loans to assist needy students to pursue studies at eligible institutions of higher education. Directs the Association to give preference, by regulation, to the neediest students. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1985 to carry out such program. Establishes a Basic Student Loan Fund within the Treasury of the United States for the Association to make payments authorized for the basic student loan program and the national direct student loan program. Authorizes the Association to request the Secretary of the Treasury to invest a portion of the student loan insurance fund which is not required for current operations. Requires that such investments be in public debt securities. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as the Association may require to redeem specified obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury. Authorizes the Association to make loans to eligible students (other than graduate students studying business, law, or medicine) who submit prescribed applications. Sets forth terms of basic student loans, including annual interest rates of seven percent or less according to specified formulas, and limits on such loans. Repeals the authorization of appropriations, under the national direct student loan program, for fiscal years 1979 through 1982 to enable students who received loans for academic years ending prior to October 1, 1979, to continue or complete courses of study. Revises the required provisions of agreements with institutions of higher education under the national direct student loan program to: (1) mandate that specified sums collected be deposited in the Basic Student Loan Fund (rather than the general fund of the Treasury; and (2) delete an entitlement for such institutions of specified payments in lieu of reimbursement for the administrative expenses of their student loan programs. Changes the dates of the period for a capital distribution of the balance of the student loan fund established by each institution of higher education under the national direct student loan program to September 30, 1980 through March 31, 1981 (formerly September 30, 1984 through March 31, 1985). Directs the Association to deposit all amounts received under such distribution and under such program in the Basic Student Loan Fund. Transfers to the Association all functions, powers, duties, rights and responsibilities of the Commissioner of Education with respect to specified loans and agreements. Revises the formulas and procedures by which the administrative expenses of student assistance programs are compensated by the Federal government. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to administer such compensation. Includes among required information which participating institutions must give to all students: (1) special facilities and services available to handicapped students; and (2) placement data for programs of study intended to prepare students for employment in particular fields. Directs the Secretary to publish annually in the Federal Register a proposed schedule of expected family contributions for an academic year for various levels of family income for the purpose of determining a student's need for financial assistance. Directs the Secretary to provide interested parties an opportunity for comments and recommendations during a 30-day period following such publication. Requires that a final schedule be submitted to specified officers and committees of the Congress and become effective 60 days after submission, or earlier if such committees give notice of no objections to such schedule. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations concerning the determination of such expected family contribution, as well as special regulations for determining the expected family contribution of an independent student, in accordance with specified basic criteria. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations necessary to carry out this title, including regulations for the limitation, suspension or termination of the eligibility for any student assistance program of any otherwise eligible institution upon determination, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing on the record in the case of a limitation or termination, that such institution has violated or failed to carry out specified provisions, agreements, or regulations. Limits such periods of suspension to sixty days, with specified exceptions. Directs the Secretary to prescribe a single application for determining a student's need and eligibility for financial assistance under this title. Title V: Amendments to Title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Includes principals among those in Teacher Corps training and retraining programs and demonstration projects. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Teacher Corps Program and for Teacher Training Programs through fiscal year 1985. Includes the teachers and administrators of the schools involved among those represented on an elected council to participate in the preparation of specified Teacher Corps Program arrangements. Removes the limit on the rate of compensation for teacher interns in the Teacher Corps Program. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to allocate teacher training programs grants so as to most nearly provide an equitable geographical distribution of grants throughout the States when appropriations in any fiscal year are less than the $50,000,000 level requirement for one teacher center per State. Transfers responsibility for Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs from the Commissioner to the Secretary. Title VI: Establishment of a New Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Establishes a new title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965: Foreign Studies and Language Development. Terminates the program of grants to institution of higher education to improve undergraduate instruction through acquisition of equipment, including television equipment and by minor remodeling. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or contracts with institutions of higher learning for establishing, equipping, and operating modern foreign language studies, foreign area studies, and international studies programs and centers. Authorizes the Secretary to pay stipends to individuals undergoing advanced training in such centers or programs, upon reasonable assurance that recipients will be available for teaching or other public service. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education and to nonprofit organizations for graduate and undergraduate centers of international studies. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or contracts with any public or private agency or organization for educational programs to promote U.S. student understanding of the cultures and actions of other nations. Directs the Secretary to distribute such throughout the Nation on a broad and equitable geographical basis. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Title VII: Amendments to Title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Extends the authorizations of appropriations for the programs of financial assistance for undergraduate and graduate academic facilities and the program of loans for the construction, reconstruction, and renovation of academic facilities through fiscal year 1985. Transfers responsibility for such programs from the Commissioner to the Secretary. Revises the required formula for determining the interest rate of such loans. Terminates the program of Assistance in Major Disaster Areas for construction of academic facilities and replacement of equipment and supplies by public institutions of higher education in such areas. Terminates the old program of Reconstruction and Renovation. Establishes a new program of Reconstruction and Renovation assistance. Directs the Secretary to assist institutions of higher education and higher education building agencies to reconstruct or renovate academic facilities and acquire special equipment for: (1) energy use economy; (2) conformity with specified legal requirements relating to access for the handicapped, environmental protection, or health and safety; and (3) research facilities. Directs the Secretary to carry out such program through a State grant program, a direct grant program, and a program of making and insuring loans. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes through fiscal year 1985. Provides, under the State grant program, for State allotments, State plans, basic criteria for determining priorities and Federal share, applications for grants, and amounts of grants. Provides for applications for, and amounts of, grants under the direct grant program. Sets forth eligibility conditions, amounts, and terms of loans and general provisions for the loan program. Creates within the Treasury a separate fund available to the Secretary for higher education reconstruction and renovation and special equipment acquisition loans and loan insurance. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual interest grants to private institutions of higher education and private higher education building agencies to reduce the cost of borrowing from other sources for such reconstruction, renovation or acquisition. Sets forth criteria for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to insure the payment of interest and principal on such loans to nonprofit private higher education institutions and nonprofit higher education building agencies which meet specified criteria. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to approve the interest rate, timing and other terms and conditions of such insured obligations and authorizes such Secretary to waive such requirement when such financing does not have a significant impact on the market for government and government guaranteed securities. Title VIII: Amendment to Title VIII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Extends through fiscal year 1985 the authorization of appropriations for programs of Cooperative Education. Removes specified limits on the amounts of grants for such programs. Transfers the authority to make grants for programs of cooperative education and grants and contracts for training and research in cooperation education from the Commissioner to the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts for projects demonstrating or exploring the feasibility or value of innovative methods of cooperative education. Title IX: Amendments to Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Extends the authorization of appropriations for grants to institutions of higher education for graduate programs through fiscal year 1985. Extends the authority of the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to award fellowships for study in graduate and professional programs. Transfers responsibility for such grant and fellowship programs from the Commissioner to the Secretary. Terminates the programs of public service fellowships, fellowships for other purposes, and general assistance for graduate schools, and the annual fellowship report. Retains the program of assistance for training in the legal profession. Transfers the authority to make grants and contracts for such program from the Commissioner to the Secretary. Extends such authority and the authorization of appropriations for such program through fiscal year 1985. Title X: Amendments to Title XII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Includes in the definition of "institutions of higher education" educational institutions in any State which provide an educational program for which they award graduate or professional degrees or which provide not less than a six-month (formerly one-year) program of training to prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation. Removes from such definition specified requirements involving accreditation or accreditation alternatives. Changes the definition of State to include "the Northern Mariana Islands" (formerly "the government of the Northern Mariana Islands"). Limits the definition of "State educational agency" to "the officer or agency primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools. Deletes the definition of "gifted and talented children. Title XI: Amendment to the General Education Provisions Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Title XII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals Title X (Establishment and Expansion of Community Colleges) and Title XI (Law School Clinical Experience Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Repeals Title VI (Foreign Studies and Language Development) of the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Repeals the International Education Act of 1966.
Law· HRH.R. 5192 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 September 1979
Education Amendments of 1980 Title I: Establishment of a New Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a new title I: "Education Outreach Programs". Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1985, with 85 percent of such sums designated for State programs and 15 percent for Federal discretionary grants. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to States to conduct comprehensive statewide planning for improving access to postsecondary education for traditional and nontraditional learners, coordinating educational and occupational information services for youth and adults, and coordinating all continuing education programs. Sets forth formulas to determine the percentage of grant funds which may be spent on statewide studies, information services, and continuing education. Authorizes the States to make grants to public and private institutions and organizations for such purposes. Sets forth formulas and procedures for determining the allotment of such funds to each State. Authorizes the Secretary to make Federal discretionary grants to promote and develop postsecondary and continuing education. Title II: Amendment and Extension of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Changes the title II heading to: College and Research Library Assistance and Library Training and Research. Directs the Secretary (formerly directed the Commissioner of Education) to make resource development grants to institutions of higher learning and to other public and private nonprofit library institutions whose primary function is to provide library and information services to institutions of higher education on a formal cooperative basis. Limits the amount of such grants to $10,000 each. Directs the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education and library organizations or agencies to assist them in training persons in librarianship. Requires that at least 50 percent of such grants be for establishing and maintaining fellowships and traineeships. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of higher education and other public or private agencies, institutions, and organizations for research and demonstration projects related to library improvement, librarianship training, information technology, and dissemination of project information. Authorizes the Secretary to make special purpose grants to: (1) institutions of higher education to meet special national or regional needs in library or information sciences; (2) combinations of such institutions for joint-use library facilities, resources, and equipment; and (3) other public and private nonprofit library institutions providing formal, cooperative library and information services to higher education institutions to improve such services. Requires recipients of such grants to expend specified matching sums. Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions with major resource libraries. Bars recipients of such grants from receiving other specified grants in the same fiscal year. Establishes a National Periodical Center and a National Periodical Center Corporation. Directs the Corporation to establish a national system to provide reliable and timely document delivery from a comprehensive collection of periodical literature. Provides for the authority to carry out Corporation functions, a Board of Directors, a Director and Staff, nonprofit status, and corporate powers. Directs the Corporation to report to the President and Congress each year. Title III: Amendment to Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to improve the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of developing institutions. Redefines "developing institution" as "an institution of higher education: (1) the enrollment of which includes a substantial percentage of students from low-income families; and (2) the average expenditures of which are low, per full-time equivalent student, in comparison with the average expenditures of institutions that offer similar instruction." Authorizes appropriations for such program for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Sets forth formulas for allocating such appropriations to junior or community colleges, institutions awarding bachelor degrees, and for specified grants. Authorizes the Secretary to waive specified requirements for eligibility for such assistance in order to increase higher education opportunities for American Indians or Spanish-speaking people. Sets forth purposes and durations of grants, requirements for applications for assistance, and limitations on the use of funds granted to this title. Title IV: Student Assistance - Extends through the end of fiscal year 1986 the period during which the Commissioner of Education is directed to pay basic educational opportunity grants to eligible undergraduate students. Redefines student eligibility requirements for such basic grants to include attendance at an eligible institution, carrying at least one-half the normal full-time workload, maintaining satisfactory progress in the course of study, not owing a refund on previous grants or being in default on a student loan, and filing a statement that such funds will be used solely for educational purposes. Sets the maximum amount of each such grant for academic years 1981-1982 through 1985-1986. Requires that such grant payments be made in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary (formerly by the Commissioner). Requires that a schedule of reductions, in case of insufficient funds, be established by the Secretary and that such schedule provide for a uniformly increasing reduction as the entitlement decreases and that no payment less than $50 shall be made. Extends through fiscal year 1985 the requirement that entitlements be paid only if certain minimum amounts for specified programs are appropriated. Eliminates provisions for payments to institutions of higher education to cover information and administrative costs of the basic grant program and for multiple State processing of student aid. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1985 to enable the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to make payments to eligible institutions of higher education for supplemental grants to undergraduate students. Raises the limit on the amount of each such grant to $2,000 per academic year. Allows the $200 minimum payment requirement to be reduced proportionately for students enrolled for less than a full academic year. Eliminates the requirement that the Commissioner prescribe criteria and schedules for the guidance of institutions in determining student need. (Prescribes such criteria and directs the Secretary to publish such schedules, later in this Act). Redefines institutional eligibility criteria for such programs to include a program participation agreement with the Secretary (formerly with the Commissioner), continued spending of funds from other sources in its scholarship and student aid program, proper and efficient administration of funds, reporting to the Secretary, and providing financial aid information to students. Redefines student eligibility requirements for such supplemental grants to include attendance at an eligible institution, settlement of previous grants or student loans, the filing of a statement that such funds will be used for educational purposes, and demonstration of financial need in accordance with specified criteria which include expected family contribution as prescribed by the Secretary. Transfers to the Secretary specified duties of the Commissioner relating to the apportionment and allocation of funds to States for undergraduate student assistance. Extends through fiscal year 1985 the authorization of appropriations for payments to States for student incentive grants. Directs the Commissioner to allot, from 60 percent of appropriations in excess of $77,000,000 in any fiscal year, for such incentive grants, a specified proportion to States which have met specified spending requirements, with the remainder to all other States. Raises the limit on the amount of such incentive grants to $2,000 per individual per academic year. Requires that State programs receiving such funds maintain specified levels of State expenditures under such programs. Adds the training of persons serving or preparing for service in a special program for disadvantaged students as an element to be funded under such special program. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants and contracts for such a program without regard to specified advertising requirements for Federal contracts. Removes public agencies and organizations from among the entities which may receive such grants and contracts. Authorizes appropriations for such program through fiscal year 1985. Sets forth requirements for eligibility in the Talent Search, Upward Bound, Special Services for Disadvantaged Students, and Educational Opportunity Centers programs. Requires that specified percentages of those participating in such programs be low-income individuals and/or first-generation college students. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to provide training for staff and leadership personnel in such programs. Extends the program for veterans cost-of-instruction payments to institutions of higher education through fiscal year 1985 for specified institutions and through any academic year ending before the end of fiscal year 1986 for specified institutions. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to administer such program. Eliminates the requirement that only an institution with fewer than 2,500 students in attendance may carry out such program through a consortium agreement with other institutions. Lowers to $100,000 (formerly $135,000) the maximum amount of such program payments in any fiscal year to any one institution and its branches. Raises the percentage (from 75 to 90) of such amount which must be spent to maintain a full-time office of veterans' affairs. Extends the Federal student loan insurance program through fiscal year 1986 for new student loans and through fiscal year 1990 for loans to enable students with prior insured loans to continue or complete their education. Sets a $3,000 limit on the total of loans made to an independent undergraduate student in any academic year which may be covered by Federal loan insurance. Raises the limitations on aggregate unpaid principal amounts for all such insured loans to $12,500 (from $7,500) for non-independent undergraduate students, to $15,000 for independent undergraduate students, and to $25,000 (from $15,000) for graduate or professional students. Makes similar changes in limitations on State and non-profit institution loan insurance programs which receive Federal payments to reduce student interest costs or which are reimbursed under Federal loan insurance supplemental guaranty agreements. Authorizes the Commissioner to increase the limits applicable to graduate and professional students pursuing exceptionally expensive programs. Includes among those permitted to defer repayment of principal on federally-insured student loans: officers in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, full-time volunteers with specified tax- exempt organizations, interns, and those temporarily totally disabled or unable to secure employment because of the care required by a temporarily disabled spouse. Permits similar deferments under specified student loan programs insured by States or nonprofit institutions. Directs the Commissioner to enter into cooperative agreements with credit bureau organizations providing for the exchange of information concerning student borrowers. Requires that such agreements provide that: (1) the Commissioner disclose only accurate and complete information and not disclose that a loan is in default until a reasonable effort has been made to collect the debt; (2) such organization will be promptly notified of, and will promptly record, changes submitted by the Commissioner or objections by the borrower with respect to such information; and (3) no unfair, unreasonable, harassing, or misleading collection practices will result. Directs the Commissioner to notify promptly any borrower of any such disclosure. Requires that written agreements evidencing federally-insured student loans (or loans insured by specified State or non-profit institutional programs) contain notice of such system of disclosure and provide that the lender on request of the borrower will inform such credit bureaus of the repayment status of the note. Authorizes the Commissioner to provide eligible lenders, and State or nonprofit organizations having specified guaranty agreements, any relevant information from whatever source with respect to borrowers. Permits parents of a dependent undergraduate student to borrow, under the same terms as other guaranteed student loans, up to $3,000 per student per academic year and up to $15,000 as an aggregate insured principal for loans on account of any one student. Prohibits such borrowing to pay for the expenses of more than three students in any academic year. Provides for annual insurable limits, deferments of repayment of principal, and interest rates for such loans. Directs the Secretary to insure such loans in a State only if the State does not do so within a specified period. Prohibits the payment of special allowances on loans made or purchased with funds obtained from specified tax-exempt securities or on loans pledged as security to obtain specified funds. Sets forth the conditions under which special allowances must be paid to specified agencies. Deletes provisions for a Committee on the Process of Determining Student Loan Special Allowances. Redefines student eligibility requirements for federally insured student loans to include: (1) maintaining satisfactory progress in the course of study; (2) not owing a refund on previous grants and not being in default on specified student loans; and (3) filing a statement that such funds will be used solely for educational purposes. Sets forth requirement for the types of security which must be made on warehousing advances made by the Student Loan Marketing Association and for the use of proceeds from such advances. Requires that student loans set aside pursuant to the offering of participations or pooled interests be adequate at all times to ensure timely principal and interest payments on such securities. Includes lenders with less than $100,000,000 (formerly $50,000,000) in deposits among those permitted to condition student loans upon the student or the student's family maintaining a business relationship with the lender. Permits the Board of Directors of the Student Loan Marketing Association to fix from time to time the par value of its shares of common stock. Terminates the requirements that the Secretary prescribe regulations for the maximum number of shares of such stock which may be issued or be outstanding at any one time. Includes nonvoting common stock among such stock for which dividends may be declared. Authorizes the Association to issue nonvoting stock, which shall be freely transferable. Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from conditioning approval of issuance of obligations by the Association on such obligations being made or sold to the Federal Financing Bank. Extends through fiscal year 1984 the authority of the Secretary (of Health, Education, and Welfare) to guarantee payment on such obligations. Requires prompt Government action on Association requests for approval to issue such obligations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase such obligations, within specified limits. Authorizes the Association to sell or issue obligations on the security of guaranteed student loans to the Federal Financing Bank. Authorizes the Association to make new insurable loans to specified borrowers to discharge the liability on old student loans. Authorizes the Association to make insurable student loans whenever the Secretary, after consulting with representatives of a State, determines that a substantial portion of all eligible borrowers in a State or within an area of substantial population within a State are unable to obtain student loans. Stipulates that the Association in making such loans shall not be deemed a creditor for any purposes of the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Declares that the Truth in Lending Act shall not apply to any guaranteed student loans. Establishes, as an independent agency within the executive branch, a National Commission on Student Loans. Directs the Commission to make a report and recommendations to the President and the Congress on specified issues relating to the financing of student loans. Authorizes the Commission to accept grants, gifts, or bequests. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the work of the Commission. Extends the authorization of appropriations for work-study programs through fiscal year 1985. Directs the Commissioner to allot not to exceed one percent of such appropriations among Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Virgin Islands according to their respective needs for work-study programs. Includes Puerto Rico among "States" for purposes of allotments of work-study funds. Requires that specified reallotments of funds be available for grants for work-study programs until the close of the second fiscal year next succeeding the fiscal year for which appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary (formerly authorized the Commissioner) to enter into agreements under which the Secretary will make grants to eligible institutions to assist in the operation of work-study programs. Revises conditions for such agreements to require: (1) that the work involved will not pay less than the current Federal minimum wage; and (2) that only students who demonstrate financial need and who meet specified eligibility requirements will be assisted. Repeals additional requirements for such agreements with area vocational schools. Requires that ten percent of work-study sums granted to an eligible institution remain available for expenditure during the succeeding fiscal year. Authorizes the Commissioner to use up to ten percent of the sums which an eligible institution may receive from appropriations for a fiscal year to make grants to such institution during the preceding fiscal year. Raises from $15,000 to $25,000 the limitation on the amount of work-study funds which eligible institutions may use to establish or expand job location and development programs, if such amount is less than ten percent of the allotment. Extends the authorization for appropriations for the National Direct Student Loans program through Fiscal year 1985. Changes the dates during which there shall be a capital distribution of the assets from student loan funds to after fiscal year 1984 and not later than March 31, 1985, with provision for distribution of specified excess assets prior to fiscal year 1985. Raises the limit on the aggregate of loans for all years made by an institution of higher education from National Direct Student Loan funds from $10,000 to $12,000 for graduate or professional students, from $5,000 to $6,000 for undergraduates who have completed two years towards the bachelor's degree, and from $2,500 to $3,000 for any other students. Includes among those permitted to defer, for specified periods, repayment of principal of, or interest on, National Direct Student Loans: (1) officers in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service; (2) full-time volunteers with specified tax-exempt organizations; (3) interns; and (4) those temporarily totally disabled or unable to secure employment because of the care required by a temporarily disabled spouse. Requires that agreements with institutions for Federal contributions to National Direct Student Loan funds provide that the Commissioner will provide to such institutions any relevant information, from whatever source, on borrowers. Directs the Commissioner to enter into cooperative agreements with credit bureau organizations to exchange information concerning student borrowers in default for specified periods. Requires that student loan agreements contain notice of such system of information disclosure. Removes the limitation on the aggregate of the amount of specified Federal capital contributions paid for any fiscal year to proprietary institutions of higher education. Stipulates that the amount of a national direct student loan, and interest on such loan, which has been cancelled for certain public service shall not be considered taxable income. Revises the formulas and procedures by which the administrative expenses of student assistance programs are compensated by the Federal government. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to administer such compensation. Includes among required information which participating institutions must give to all students: (1) special facilities and services available to handicapped students; and (2) names of entities which accredit, approve, or license the institution and its programs. Directs the Secretary (formerly the Commissioner) to make available to eligible institutions descriptions of Federal student assistance programs. Extends the annual authorization of appropriations, for the Student Financial Assistance Training Program through fiscal year 1986. Terminates all authority for such program at the end of fiscal year 1986. Directs the Secretary to publish annually in the Federal Register a proposed schedule of expected family contributions for an academic year for various levels of family income for the purpose of determining a student's need for financial assistance. Directs the Commissioner to provide interested parties an opportunity for comments and recommendations during a 30-day period following such publication. Requires such schedule to be submitted to Congress and, if either house of Congress adopts a resolution of disapproval, directs the Commissioner to publish a new schedule. Directs the Commissioner to promulgate regulations concerning the determination of such expected family contributions, as well as special regulations for determining the expected family contribution and effective family income of an independent student, in accordance with specified basic criteria. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations necessary to carry out this title, including regulations for the limitation, suspension, or termination of the eligibility for any student assistance program of any otherwise eligibility institution upon determination, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing on the record, that such institution has violated or failed to carry out specified provisions, agreements, or regulations. Limits such periods of suspension to sixty days, with specified exceptions. Directs the Secretary to prescribe a single application form for determining a student's need and eligibility for financial assistance under this title. Title V: Amendment and Extension of Title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Extends authorizations of appropriations for the Teacher Corps Program and for Teacher Training Programs through fiscal year 1985. Removes the limit on the rate of compensation for teacher interns in the Teacher Corps program. Directs the Commissioner to allocate teacher training program grants so as to most nearly provide an equitable geographical distribution of grants throughout the States when appropriations in any fiscal year are less than the $50,000,000 level requirement for one teacher center per State. Includes "educational service agencies" among those entities which may operate teacher centers. Includes "collaboration with one or more institutions of higher education which serve teachers" in the definition of teacher centers. Permits institutions of higher learning to apply for grants to plan, establish, and operate teachers' centers either separately or together with other such institutions or with local educational agencies. Ends the authorization of local educational agencies with approved applications to contract with institutions of higher education. Authorizes the Commissioner to use not less than ten percent of teacher center program funds as grants to institutions of higher education for the operation of teacher centers. Title VI: Establishment of a New Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Establishes a new title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965: "Foreign Studies and Language Development". Terminates the program of grants to institutions of higher education for the improvement of undergraduate instruction through acquisition of equipment, including television equipment, and by minor remodeling. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or contracts with institutions of higher learning for establishing, equipping, and operating modern foreign language studies, foreign area studies, and international studies programs and centers. Authorizes the Secretary to pay stipends to individuals undergoing advanced training in such centers or programs, upon reasonable assurance that recipients will be available for teaching or other public service. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education and to nonprofit organizations for graduate and undergraduate centers of international studies. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or contracts with any public or private agency or organization for educational programs to promote U.S. student understanding of the cultures and actions of other nations. Directs the Secretary to distribute such assistance throughout the Nation on a broad and equitable geographical basis. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Repeals the foreign studies and language development program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Title VII: Amendment to Title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Directs the Secretary (formerly directed the Commissioner) to assist institutions of higher education and higher education building agencies to construct, reconstruct, or renovate academic facilities and acquire special equipment for: (1) energy use economy; (2) conforming with specified legal requirements relating to access for the handicapped, environmental protection, or health and safety; or (3) research facilities, including libraries. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes through fiscal year 1985. Raises to $100,000 the minimum amount allotted to any State for any fiscal year for grants to all institutions of postsecondary education other than public community colleges and public technical institutes. Requires that each State's allotment be ratably reduced if appropriations are not sufficient. Terminates the program of assistance for construction of academic facilities and replacement of equipment and supplies by public institutions of higher education in major disaster areas. Title VIII: Cooperative Education - Increases the amount of appropriations authorized for fiscal years 1980 through 1982 for grants to institutions of higher education for programs of cooperative education. Allows such programs to provide parallel, as well as alternate, periods of academic study and of public or private employment. Increases the amount of appropriations for specified training, demonstration, or research grants or contracts for fiscal years 1981 and 1982, and extends such authorization through fiscal year 1985. Raises the limits on the amounts of grants for cooperative education programs made to any one institution of higher education and to combinations of such institutions. Title IX: Graduate Programs - Extends the authorization of appropriations for financial assistance to graduate and professional programs through fiscal year 1985. Changes one of the authorized activities for which such funds may be used from "expansion" to "maintenance and improvement of quality" of such programs. Directs the Commissioner to gather data necessary for the periodic assessment of the state of U.S. graduate education and to submit a special report to Congress on the financing of graduate education. Extends the authority of the Commissioner to award graduate fellowships, public service fellowships, and fellowships for other purposes through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes additional appropriations to carry out a program of assistance for training in the legal profession through fiscal year 1985. Extends the authority of the Commissioner to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public and private agencies and organizations other than institutions of higher education to assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to train for the legal profession. Removes the three-month limit on preliminary training for such individuals. Title X: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and contracts with, institutions of postsecondary education and other public and nonprofit private educational institutions and agencies to improve postsecondary educational opportunities. Requires that such grants or contracts be submitted to appropriate State commissions for their comments and recommendations. Establishes a National Board of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education to advise the Secretary and the Director of the Fund. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title through fiscal year 1985. Repeals the provisions of the General Education Provisions Act relating to the fund for the improvement of postsecondary education. Title XI: Establishment of a New Title XI of the Higher Education Act of 1965 - Establishes a new title XI of the Higher Education Act of 1965: "Urban Grant University Program". Directs the Commissioner to carry out programs to aid urban universities in finding answers to urban problems and in making their resources more readily and effectively available to their urban communities. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes through fiscal year 1985. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to urban universities for such urban-oriented projects. Requires that applicants for grants show that the chief executives of the local governments within whose jurisdictions fall the needs to be addressed by such proposed projects have had an opportunity for review and comment. Sets forth guidelines for the Commissioner in approving such projects. Directs the Commissioner to designate institutions receiving such grants as urban grant universities and to publish an annual list of such institutions. Prescribes limitations on the amounts of individual grants and of the portion allotted to individual States. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1985 for Law School Clinical Experience Programs established pursuant to the Higher Education Act of 1965. Title XII: General Provisions - Repeals specified provisions relating to State Postsecondary Education Commissions, Comprehensive Statewide Planning, the Advisory Council on Graduate Education, cost of education data, and funding requirements of title XII of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Requires States to enter into agreements with the Secretary setting forth terms and conditions for the relationship between the Federal Government and each individual State for the purposes set forth in specified programs under this Act in order to receive assistance under such programs.
Bill· SS. 1707 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1979
William Levi Dawson Institute of Public Affairs Assistance Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to Fisk University, in Nashville, Tennessee, for the development of the William Levi Dawson Institute of Public Affairs of Fisk University.
Bill· HRH.R. 5154 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
National Student Loan Reform Act - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to: (1) ensure capital availability for student loans by strengthening the campus-based direct loan program; (2) adjust repayment schedules, and otherwise improve collection procedures, to make repayment sensitive to ability to repay and to reduce the default rate; and (3) guarantee loans to eligible borrowers so as to facilitate providing the expected family contributions (or, in the case of independent students, the expected self-help contribution) to the cost of higher education. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Student Loan Marketing Association to enter into agreements with eligible institutions for making low-interest loans to student directly through such institutions. Sets forth the terms of such agreement. Stipulates that: (1) the conditions of such loans shall be determined by the institution, subject to any requirements or limitations prescribed by the Association; (2) the amount of such loans shall equal the cost of attendance minus any scholarships or other loans, the expected family income or self-help contribution, and any other Federal assistance; (3) such loans will be made to accepted or attending students in financial need who are carrying at least one-half the normal academic workload; and (4) such loans shall be evidenced by a written agreement. Stipulates with regard to repayment that: (1) the repayment period shall begin nine months after a student graduates or ceases to carry the required workload, and continue for a maximum of 15 years; (2) repayment may be in either equal or graduated installments at the option of the student borrower; (3) payments may be accelerated or paid in full without penalty; (4) the interest rate shall be seven percent; (5) no security or endorsement shall be required unless the student borrower is a minor; (6) the loan shall be cancelled upon the death or permanent total disability of the student borrower; (7) no repayment shall be required while the borrower is in school, or for up to three years while in the Armed Forces, Peace Corps, or a volunteer under the Domestic Volunteer Act of 1972; (8) repayment extensions may be made; and (9) partial loan cancellation shall be made for certain teaching positions and combat veterans. Establishes a loan program guaranteed by the Association to meet the cost of the expected family contribution under this Act. Authorizes necessary appropriations to the student loan insurance fund for such loans and related expenses. Transfers such fund's availability from the Commissioner of Education to the Association. Provides that the Association shall pay an eligible institution ten dollars per academic years for each enrolled student on whose behalf such family-contribution loan is made. Limits such new family-contribution loan to fiscal years 1981-1985, and prohibits any payment for existing loans after September 30, 1989. Stipulates with regard to such family-contribution loans: (1) the institution must certify to the lender the amount of the expected family contribution; (2) such loans shall be 100 percent insured; (3) the student must have been accepted, or already enrolled, as at least a half-time basis; (4) such loans will be made without security and without endorsement; (5) repayment shall begin no more than nine months after graduation or after the student ceases to be at least a half-time student, and shall be over a period of not less than five nor more than ten years; (6) principal need not be paid (but interest shall accrue) if the student is enrolled at least half-time (including graduate school), in a rehabilitation training program, or unable to find (for up to 12 months) full time employment; (7) interest, at a rate of one percent less than the Treasury rate, shall accrue and be paid during the term of the loan, except that such interest may be deferred until repayment of the principal starts; and (8) payments may be accelerated without penalty. Provides that, upon application by an eligible lender, the Association shall issue certificates of insurance covering the loan and setting forth the amount and terms of the insurance. Authorizes the Association to issue to a lender a certificate of comprehensive coverage to cover all qualifying loans made by such lender within a specified cutoff date and up to a specified aggregate maximum. Sets forth lender recovery procedures for any such defaulting borrowers. Provides that the Association shall repay the loans of bankrupt, diseased, or disabled borrowers. Revises provisions regarding special allowance payments to lenders to: (1) change the formula for computing such allowance; and (2) extend the five percent limit on such allowance from October 1, 1977, to October 1, 1980. Eliminates the provision providing for a District of Columbia student loan insurance program. Authorizes Federal credit unions to make family-contribution loans to eligible borrowers. Terminates existing lending programs (Guaranteed Student Loan Program and the National Direct Student Loan Program) six months after the enactment of this Act. Provides for the dissolution of the existing Student Loan Marketing Association and the assumption, and expansion, of such Association's functions by a newly created Association. Includes within such new Association's functions: (1) the authority to continue to purchase, sell, collect or otherwise deal in specified existing student loan programs; and (2) the authority to contract with State guaranty agencies (and compensate them for services) for collecting student loans, distributing loan funds to institutions, monitoring and auditing student loan programs, and providing technical assistance and information regarding such loans. Authorizes the Association to issue notes, bonds, or other obligations with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides that the obligations of the Association shall constitute general obligations of the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 5112 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Attorney General to establish and maintain procedures for the exchange of information with respect to aliens who are applicants for or recipients of SSI. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exclude aliens from the United States who are likely to receive SSI within six months after entering the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 5143 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to waive certain State agency organization requirements with respect to a State agency which demonstrates that such waiver would be consistent with the objectives of title I of such Act (Vocational Rehabilitation Services).
Bill· HRH.R. 5106 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 regarding college work-study programs to: (1) encourage such work to be related to a student's educational and vocational goals; (2) provide that determination of a participating student's non-education living expenses during a period of non-regular enrollment shall be made by the educational institution; (3) state that an institution may give academic credit for such work-study; (4) state that other eligible Federal funds may be used by an institution to pay its share for such work-study programs; (5) authorize participating institutions to set aside specified percentages of work-study funds for fiscal years 1981-1984 for educational and vocational-related work-study employment, including employment not in the service of the institution; and (6) require an institution to include off-campus employment opportunities to students requesting financial aid information.
Bill· HRH.R. 5051 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1979
State Postsecondary Education Act of 1980 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the provisions concerning: (1) agreements between the Federal Government and the States; and (2) State planning and financing of postsecondary education. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to enter into supplemental agreements with the States to aid in the effective administration of Federal higher education programs.
Bill· SS. 1600 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1979
National Student Loan Reform Act - Declares the purposes of this Act to be to: (1) ensure capital availability for student loans by strengthening the campus-based direct loan program; (2) adjust repayment schedules, and otherwise improve collection procedures, to make repayment sensitive to ability to repay and to reduce the default rate; and (3) guarantee loans to eligible borrowers so as to facilitate providing the expected family contributions (or, in the case of independent students, the expected self-help contribution) to the cost of higher education. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Student Loan Marketing Association (Association) to enter into agreements with eligible institutions for making low-interest loans to students directly through such institutions. Sets forth the terms of such agreements. Stipulates that: (1) the conditions of such loans shall be determined by the institution, subject to any requirements or limitations prescribed by the Association; (2) the amount of such loans shall equal the cost of attendance minus any scholarships or other loans, the expected family income or self-help contribution, and any other Federal assistance; (3) such loans will be made to accepted or attending students in financial need who are carrying at least one-half the normal academic workload; and (4) such loans shall be evidenced by a written agreement. Stipulates with regard to repayment that: (1) the repayment period shall begin nine months after a student graduates or ceases to carry the required workload, and continue for a maximum of 15 years; (2) repayment may be in either equal or graduated installments at the option of the student borrower; (3) payments may be accelerated or paid in full without penalty; (4) the interest rate shall be seven percent; (5) no security or endorsement shall be required unless the student borrower is a minor; (6) the loan shall be cancelled upon the death or permanent total disability of the student borrower; (7) no repayment shall be required while the borrower is in school, or for up to three years while in the Armed Forces, Peace Corps, or a volunteer under the Domestic Volunteer Act of 1973; (8) repayment extensions may be made; and (9) partial ban cancellation shall be made for certain teaching positions and combat veterans. Establishes a loan program guaranteed by the Association to meet the cost of the expected family contribution under this Act. Authorizes necessary appropriations to the student ban insurance fund for such loans and related expenses. Transfers such funds availability from the Commissioner of Education to the Association. Provides that the Association shall pay an eligible institution ten dollars per academic year year for each enrolled student on whose behalf such family-contribution loan is made. Limits such new family-contribution loans to fiscal years 1981-1985, and prohibits payments for existing loans after September 30, 1989. Stipulates with regard to such family-contribution loans: (1) the institution must certify to the lender the amount of the expected family contribution; (2) such loans shall be 100 percent insured; (3) the student must have been accepted, or already enrolled, on at least a half- time basis; (4) such loans will be made without security and without endorsement; (5) repayment shall begin no more than nine months after graduation or after the student ceases to be at least a half-time student, and shall be over a period of not less than five nor more than ten years; (6) principal need not be paid (but interest shall accrue) if the student is enrolled at least half-time (including graduate school), in a rehabilitation training program, or unable to find (for up to 12 months) full-time employment; (7) interest, at a rate of one percent less than the Treasury rate, shall accrue and paid during the term of the loan, except that such interest may be deferred until repayment of the principal starts; and (8) payments may be accelerated without penalty. Provides that, upon application by an eligible lender, the Association shall issue certificates of insurance covering the loan and setting forth the amount and terms of the insurance. Authorizes the Association to issue to a lender a certificate of comprehensive coverage to cover all qualifying loans made by such lender within a specified cutoff date and up to a specified aggregate maximum. Sets forth lender recovery procedures for defaulting loans. Provides that the Association shall repay the loans of bankrupt, diseased, or disabled borrowers. Revises provisions regarding special allowance payments to lenders to: (1) change the formula for computing such allowance; and (2) extend the five percent limit on such allowance from October 1, 1977, to October 1, 1980. Eliminates the provision providing for a District of Columbia student loan insurance program. Authorizes Federal credit unions to make family-contribution loans to eligible borrowers. Terminates existing lending programs (Guaranteed Student Loan Program and the National Direct Student Loan Program) six months after the enactment of this Act. Provides for the dissolution of the existing Student Loan Marketing Association and the assumption, and expansion, of such Association's functions by a newly created Association. Includes within such new Association's functions: (1) the authority to continue to purchase, sell, collect or otherwise deal in specified existing student loan programs; (2) the authority to contract with State guaranty agencies (and compensate them for services) for collecting student loans, distributing loan funds to institutions, monitoring and auditing student loan programs, and providing technical assistance and information regarding such loans. Authorizes the Association to issue notes, bonds, or other obligations, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides that the obligations of the Association shall constitute general obligations of the United States.