Education

A bill to amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to establish a program of grants for vocational-technical training and to encourage tribal economic development, to provide for the designation of the National Indian Center for Research in Vocational-Technical Training, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1988

Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act (the Act) to revise provisions for vocational education programs for Indians. Prohibits the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) from placing upon vocation education grants to or contracts with Indian tribal organizations any restrictions relating to rates of placement of students or adults served other than those applicable to specified State vocation education grants. Directs the Secretary to give special consideration to grants which involve, coordinate with, or encourage tribal economic development plans. Directs the Secretary, from funds reserved for such Indian vocational education programs, to reserve specified minimum amounts for grants: (1) first, to the Crownpoint Institute of Technology, Crown Point, New Mexico; and (2) next to the United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, North Dakota. Requires such grants to be for vocational-technical training and related activities, subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may reasonably require relative to satisfactory performance. Directs the Secretary, for FY 1991 and thereafter, to adjust for inflation such reserved amounts. Directs the Secretary, from any remaining specified reserve funds, to first make grants to institutions of higher education eligible for assistance under the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978 and to encourage development of tribal economic development programs. Authorizes the Secretary, if no such institution applies, to approve a single application from the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. Directs the Secretary of Education to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior specified reserved funds for activities consistent with the Act (other than construction or alteration of facilities) for the benefit of students in schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) provide a matching amount for such activities; and (2) administer all amounts so transferred or provided as a single fund. Directs the Secretary of Education if the Secretary of the Interior is unable to provide a matching amount, to use such reserved funds for the Indian vocational educational program. Reserves specified amounts of vocational education program funds for transfer to BIA-funded schools. Establishes the National Indian Center for Research in Vocational-Technical Training (the Center). Directs the Secretary of Education to provide support for the Center through an annual operating grant in a specified minimum amount per fiscal year. Provides that the Center shall be a nonprofit entity associated with a tribe or tribal organization. Directs the Secretary, on the basis of applications received, to designate the entity to be the Center for a period of five years, acting upon the advice of an appointed panel of non-Federal employees who are nationally recognized as experts in vocational-technical education training, administration, or research. Allows a grant recipient to apply for later grants. Directs the Secretary, in reviewing such grant applications, to consider (but prohibits requiring) past experience, demonstrated commitment of programs and fiscal resources to past vocational-technical activities, and potential future commitment to the support of the Center. Requires the Center to have a Director, appointed by the entity receiving the grant. Requires such entity to ensure that Center activities equitably consider and involve the national and regional needs of all federally-recognized tribes. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures to ensure that such grant activities will support, investigate, and fulfill national needs or goals. Requires the Center to have as its primary purposes the design and conduct of long-term research and developmental projects and programs, and appropriate supplementary and short-term studies. Requires the Center to conduct such activities directly and through subcontracts (subject to availability of appropriations) with tribes or tribal organizations, public agencies, and public or private secondary schools or institutions of higher education. Directs the Center to: (1) conduct applied research and development relating to vocational-technical training for American Indians and Alaska Natives; (2) conduct research into the relationship between training and tribal or reservation economic development; (3) provide leadership development through an advanced study center and inservice education activities for tribal and local leaders in vocational-technical education; (4) disseminate results of Center-funded research and development projects; (5) develop and provide information to help national planning and policy for Indian tribes and their economic development through vocational-technical training; (6) give technical assistance to programs serving American Indians and Alaska Natives; (7) act as a clearinghouse for information on Federal and State contracts and grants; (8) work with various entities to develop methods of planning and evaluating programs so they can offer vocational-technical education programs more closely related to the types of jobs available; and (9) report annually to the Congress, and to the Secretaries of Education, of Labor, and of the Interior, on planning and coordination under the Act, the Job Training Partnership Act, and all other Federal programs providing vocational-technical education and economic development services to American Indians and Alaska Natives.

A bill to provide for a Health and Human Resources Center at Voorheers College in Denmark, South Carolina.

United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1988

Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina, to pay construction costs and related costs for a Health and Human Resources Center.

National Educational Software Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1988

National Educational Software Act of 1988 - Establishes a National Educational Software Corporation (the Corporation) within the executive branch of the Federal Government. Sets forth provisions for members of the board of directors of the Corporation. Lists the principal functions of the Corporation as: (1) developing participation criteria for selecting high-quality, interactive, and educationally useful computer software; (2) securing investment capital for projects to develop such software; (3) making appropriate and reasonable investments in projects for the development of such software; (4) entering into contracts and making grants to assist in the development of such software; and (5) engaging in such other operations and activities as the board of directors determines to be necessary and appropriate to encourage the development and use of such software. Sets forth the general authorities of the Corporation. Sets forth provisions concerning investments by the Corporation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990.

Vorschlag für eine Entscheidung des Rates zur Annahme der zweiten Phase des Programms zur Zusammenarbeit von Hochschulen und Wirtschaft hinsichtlich der Aus- und Weiterbildung auf dem Gebiet der Technologie - COMETT II (Ratsdok. 7923/88; KOM (88) 429 endg.) (G-SIG: 11002750)

Germany · German Bundestag · 23 August 1988

Verhalten Spaniens bei der Einstellung von Lehrern an deutschen Schulen in Spanien (G-SIG: 11047159)

Germany · German Bundestag · 19 August 1988

Vorlage des Nachtragshaushalts der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit, insbesondere angesichts der fehlenden Mittel für die Förderung der beruflichen Bildung Behinderter und Lernbeeinträchtigter (G-SIG: 11051348)

Germany · German Bundestag · 19 August 1988

Entwicklung der "Fachhochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung" (G-SIG: 11002776)

Germany · German Bundestag · 18 August 1988

Qualifikation und Ausbildungsqualität der FH Bund für den gehobenen nichttechnischen Dienst, Sicherstellung einer Gleichwertigkeit mit allgemeinen Fachhochschulen, Verlängerung der Studienzeit und Gestaltung der Behördenpraktika, Verleihung eines Hochschuldiploms, Verbesserung der Arbeitsbedingungen für die Hochschullehrer, Frauenförderung, Beschränkung des Bundes auf die Rechtsaufsicht unter Übertragung auf den Bundesbildungsminister, ggfs. gemeinsam mit dem Bundesinnenminister, Ermöglichung einer Mitgliedschaft bei der Westdeutschen Rektorenkonferenz, Öffnung des "internen Modells" und Wettbewerb gegenüber anderen Beschäftigungsbereichen in den 90er Jahren, Übertragung von Weiterbildungsaufgaben, Vorlage eines Gesetzentwurfs "FH Bund"

Frauenförderungsmaßnahmen der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit, insbesondere in gewerblich-technischen Berufen; Auftragsvergaben an Unternehmen und Träger der beruflichen Bildung 1987 und 1988 (G-SIG: 11051336)

Germany · German Bundestag · 12 August 1988

A bill to amend the professional and graduate institution program under part B of title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to add certain additional institutions, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1988

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise provisions for grants to professional or graduate institutions under title III part B provisions for strengthening historically Black colleges and universities. Repeals the requirement that professional or graduate institutions eligible for such grants be "independent" (thus allowing State-affiliated institutions to qualify). Adds to the list of institutions specifically eligible for such grants: (1) Thurgood Marshall School of Law (at Texas Southern University); (2) North Carolina Central University School of Law; (3) Southern University School of Law (in Louisiana); and (4) Florida A&M College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Graduate Program).

A resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 4986) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reduce the default rate on student loans under that Act, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1988

Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 4986 (student loan defaults).

Lauro F. Cavazos, of Texas, to be Secretary of Education.

United States · United States Senate · 10 August 1988

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the establishment of, and the deduction of contributions to, education savings accounts.

United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1988

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer an income tax deduction for cash contributions to a savings account established to pay the educational expenses (tuition, supplies, meals, and lodging) of a single beneficiary at an institution of higher education or a vocational school. Limits the amount of the deduction to the lesser of $1,000 or the earned income includible in the taxpayer's gross income for the year. Disallows the deduction for contributions to an account maintained for any individual who has attained age 21. Prohibits an individual from being a beneficiary of more than one account. Permits the exclusion from gross income of payments and distributions from an education savings account as long as they are used exclusively for the educational expenses of the eligible beneficiary or are distributions of excess contributions before the due date of the tax return. Exempts the accounts themselves from taxation (except for the tax on unrelated business income of a charitable organization) unless they cease to be proper education savings accounts because either the contributor-taxpayer engages in prohibited transactions or the account's beneficiary pledges the account as security. Imposes penalties in the form of additional tax when account funds or distributions are used for other than educational purposes. Requires the trustee of an education savings account to report to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the account's beneficiary on the maintenance of the account. Extends the deduction for contributions to an educational savings account to taxpayers who do not otherwise itemize deductions. Imposes a six percent excise tax on excess contributions to an education savings account. Imposes a five percent excise tax on amounts connected with any prohibited transaction with respect to an education savings account. Imposes a penalty for failure to file required reports concerning the education savings account. Excludes from the gross income of an individual any distributions from an education savings account used exclusively for that individual's educational expenses.

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1988

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Act of 1988 - Directs the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (a private non-profit organization) for research and development relating to teacher assessment and certification procedures. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for such purpose. Sets forth terms and conditions for such assistance. Requires the Board to: (1) establish a Research and Development Advisory Committee; and (2) consult with the Secretary and other specified entities in appointing the ten Committee members (with the Secretary selecting two of those). Requires funds under this Act to be used only for research and development of teacher assessment and certification procedures for elementary and secondary school teachers. Requires that priority be given to activities relating to teaching: (1) the subject areas of mathematics, the sciences, foreign languages, and literacy (including reading, writing, and analytical ability); and (2) special educational populations, including limited English proficient children, gifted and talented children, handicapped children, and economically and educationally disadvantaged children. Sets forth application requirements. Sets the Federal share of the cost of such Board activities at 50 percent. Requires the Board to report annually to the appropriate committees of Congress. Requires the Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, and the National Research Council to review and comment on the Board's report and to report to such committees on the Board's compliance with this Act. Sets forth auditing provisions. Sets forth limitations on the ways this Act may be construed.

A joint resolution designating November 28 through December 2, 1988, as "Vocational-Technical Education Week".

United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1988

Designates November 28 through December 2, 1988, as Vocational-Technical Education Week.

A bill to make clarifying, corrective, and conforming amendments to laws relating to Indian education, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 8 August 1988

Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Education Amendments of 1978 concerning: (1) Bureau of Indian Affairs funded schools; (2) the formula for allotment of funds to schools; (3) administrative cost grants; (4) school board training; (5) coordinated programs among the tribe, the school board, and the local public school district; (6) consultation between the Bureau and interested parties; and (7) compensation of, and involuntary furloughs by, Bureau educators. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) reserve from the funds available for distribution for each fiscal year an amount equal to one percent of such funds to meet emergency and unforeseen contingencies; and (2) restrict the expenditure of such funds to education services or programs at a school site. (Current law does not specify any percentage of funds to be reserved or place such restriction on the expenditure of such funds.) Makes technical amendments to the Indian Education Amendments of 1988 concerning personnel compensation, recruitment, and retention studies. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 concerning: (1) grants to tribes and tribal organizations; (2) the eligibility of tribally controlled schools for grants; (3) the duration of the eligibility determination; (4) the payment of grants; and (5) the applicability of certain provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to grants. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Indian Education Act of 1988 concerning: (1) grants to local educational agencies; (2) special programs and projects to improve educational opportunities for Indian children, including fellowships for Indian students and the establishment of centers for gifted and talented Indian students at tribally controlled community colleges; and (3) definitions. Amends the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978 to provide that such Act shall not be construed to affect the obligation of the Bureau to implement legislative provisions enacted before April 28, 1988. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988 concerning: (1) the use of Bureau facilities; and (2) the White House Conference on Indian Education. Repeals the provision requiring the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for the Bureau to submit a report every other year on the education of Indian children.

A bill to prohibit in any program or activity under the jurisdiction of a State educational agency or local educational agency that receives Federal financial assistance the recording of information relating to sexual maturity, including any description of any sexual part, or any rating or scale based on such description, with respect to any individual other than an employee of such an agency who is at least 21 years of age.

United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1988

Prohibits the recording of information relating to sexual maturity with respect to any individual (other than an employee who is at least 21 years old) by any program or activity under the jurisdiction of a State educational agency or local educational agency receiving Federal financial assistance.

A bill to establish a program of Federal grants to assist local educational agencies to establish and provide for a school year of not less that 218 days.

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1988

Directs the Secretary of Education to establish an extended school year program of grants to local educational agencies to establish and provide for a school year of not less than 218 days. Sets forth program and application requirements. Directs the Secretary to reserve a specified amount for such extended school year grants program from appropriations for FY 1989 through 1993 for chapter two (Federal, State, and Local Partnership for Educational Improvement) of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Sam E. Keith, Jr., of Texas, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation for a term of four years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 27 July 1988

PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION ADOPTING THE SECOND PHASE OF THE PROGRAMME ON COOPERATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND ENTERPRISES REGARDING TRAINING IN THE FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY ( COMETT II )

European Union · European Commission · 25 July 1988

Stafford Student Loan Default Prevention and Management Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1988

Stafford Student Loan Default Prevention and Management Act of 1988 - Title I: Default Management - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to require default management plans to be developed and carried out by certain guaranty agencies, eligible lenders, and eligible institutions with high default rates under part B (the Robert T. Stafford Student Loan Program, formerly known as the Guaranteed Student Loan Program) of title IV (Student Assistance) of the Act. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to determine the default rates for guaranty agencies, eligible lenders, and eligible institutions. Requires those guaranty agencies, lenders, and institutions with default rates in excess of 25 percent to develop and carry out default management plans. Subjects guaranty agencies, lenders, and institutions with high volume default rates in the highest five percent by volume of defaulted student loans to program review by the Secretary (in the case of guaranty agencies) or by the State guaranty agency (in the case of lenders or institutions). Directs the Secretary (or the State guaranty agency, as the case may be) to develop and implement a default management plan for such guaranty agencies, lenders, or institutions if it is determined that their management practices substantially contribute to the high volume default. Sets forth default management provisions which may be required under such plans. Sets forth procedural requirements relating to such plans. Sets forth plan enforcement procedures, including limitation, suspension, or termination proceedings. Sets forth formulas for the calculation of default rates. Revises definitions of guaranty agency, eligible lender, and eligible institution to disqualify those that fail or refuse to develop default management plans. Title II: Improved Stafford Student Loan Collection Provisions - Requires each eligible institution to transmit financial aid transcripts (necessary for loan need determination statements) within 30 days of receiving a request from another such institution. Requires lenders or holders of the loan to notify the borrower, within 180 days after the student borrower leaves the eligible institution, of the month in which the repayment period begins, for both federally-insured student loans (FISL loans) and guaranteed student loans under the Stafford program (Stafford loans). Requires lenders of Stafford loans to notify the guaranty agency (and the borrower, if the loan is to be paid at a new address) of any sale or transfer of the loan to another holder, and the address and phone number through which to contact such other holder concerning loan repayment, within 60 days of such sale or transfer. Authorizes guaranty agencies, when the location of a student borrower is unknown or unavailable to them, to enter into agreements for the appropriate State licensing board to provide that information. Authorizes guaranty agencies to enter into agreements for eligible institutions to make payments on loans in default. Prohibits such eligible institutions from: (1) adversely affecting the rights of borrowers in entering into agreements with them to pay their loans; or (2) being relieved of responsibility for carrying out a default management plan, for more than one year. Eliminates loan repayment deferments that are based on the status of the child rather than the parent, under the parent loan (PLUS) program. Requires lenders to obtain a credit check of applicants for PLUS loans. Allows the lender to charge the applicant for the actual cost of such credit check, up to $25. Requires applicants with negative credit histories to obtain credit-worthy cosigners. Requires an administrative fee, not to exceed five percent of the principal, to be charged to the borrower and paid to the Secretary by the lender, under the Supplemental Loans for Students (SLS) and PLUS loan programs. Requires that the amount to be consolidated be greater than $7,500, in order for a borrower to consolidate loans borrowed for an enrollment period of 12 months or less. Sets forth additional requirements with respect to disbursement of student loans. Requires multiple disbursement of student loans under the Stafford Student Loan program. Requires that any such loan for $1,000 or more for an enrollment period ending more than 180 days or six months after the disbursement date, be disbursed in two or more installments, none of which exceeds one-half of the loan. Requires a minimum interval between the first and second installments. Requires such interval to be at least one-half of the enrollment period, except as necessary to permit disbursement of the second installment at the beginning of the second semester, quarter, or similar division of such enrollment period. Sets forth requirements for the initial disbursement. Prohibits disbursement of the first installment to a new student borrower entering the first undergraduate year until: (1) 30 days after the beginning of the enrollment period; and (2) the institution certifies to the lender that the student continues to be enrolled in good standing at the institution and has received specified loan counseling. Prohibits disbursement of loans to any other student more than 30 days before the beginning of the enrollment period. Sets forth requirements for methods of multiple disbursement. Requires the lender or escrow agent to withhold a second or succeeding installment if the borrower has ceased to be enrolled on at least a half-time basis. Provides that all loans issued for the same enrollment period shall be considered a single loan for specified purposes. Excludes from such additional disbursement requirements parent (PLUS) loans, consolidation loans, and loans to cover study at an institution outside the United States. Provides for transmittal of institutional disbursement schedules to lenders. Applies such additional disbursement requirements to the Stafford, SLS, and FISL programs. Directs the Secretary, guaranty agency, eligible lender, or subsequent holder to disclose to credit bureau organizations any information concerning the date a delinquency began and the repayment status of any loan that has been delinquent for 90 days. Requires that the borrower be informed that such organizations will be notified of such delinquency. Requires eligible lenders to furnish appropriate eligible institutions and guaranty agencies with lists of delinquent Stafford loan borrowers within 120 days of the date on which the loan is delinquent. Disqualifies guaranty agencies which sell lists of student borrowers with Stafford loans. Requires student borrowers to provide the lender at the time of loan application with their driver's license number and the name and address of their next of kin. Requires each eligible institution to require, during the exit interview, student borrowers to submit their address, name and address of next of kin, and driver's license number. Requires institutions, under student aid program participating agreements, to withhold academic transcripts of student borrowers in default on any title IV loan unless this will prevent the borrower from obtaining employment and repaying the loan. Prohibits institutions, under student aid program participation agreements, from: (1) using any contractor or anyone other than a salaried employee to make final determinations that an individual meets the institution's admissions requirements; or (2) paying any commission, bonus, or other incentive to any person making such final determination. Requires an institution to use the same definition of "academic year" for all programs authorized by title IV of the Act. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations for the limitation, suspension, or termination of eligibility of an individual or organization to administer any aspect of an institution's student assistance program. Limits such suspensions to 60 days, unless the organization and the Secretary agree to an extension, or unless limitation or termination proceedings are initiated. Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) conduct a study relating to the discharge of student loan indebtedness in bankruptcy proceedings; and (2) report the results of such study to the Congress within three years after enactment of this Act. Title III: Federal Responsibilities - Directs the Secretary to develop and publish an annual default report to the Congress, beginning on September 30, 1988, which includes: (1) the annual default rate for the Stafford Student Loan program; (2) a summary of the default rates for guaranty agencies, lenders, and institutions determined under default management plan positions; and (3) the net dollar volume in default for each such entity. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prepare a list of guaranty agencies, a list of eligible lenders, and a list of eligible institutions in the order of the volume of Stafford student loans in default for each such entity; and (2) identify the highest five percent of entities on each such list. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop a plan, to be published in the Federal Register for public comment, for conducting program reviews of all guaranty agencies, eligible lenders, and eligible institutions; (2) report annually to the Congress on the results of such reviews; and (3) give priority to conducting program reviews of guaranty agencies and eligible institutions with the highest default rates and the highest dollar value of loans in default. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations specifying legal restrictions and requirements for eligible institutions relating to loan counseling and reporting, including disclosure of borrower records to third parties, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and other applicable Federal laws. Prohibits an institution from being certified or recertified as eligible for the Stafford Student Loan program or other title IV programs if it: (1) has had its accreditation withdrawn, revoked, or otherwise terminated for cause during the preceding 24 months; or (2) has withdrawn from accreditation voluntarily under a show cause or suspension order during such period. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out limitation, suspension, or termination proceedings against an institution if it: (1) withdraws from an accrediting agency or association during a show cause or suspension proceeding; or (2) is denied institutional accreditation. Authorizes the Secretary to arrange with accrediting agencies and associations to assure notice of such denials of institutional accreditation. Prohibits the Secretary from approving the accreditation of an eligible institution if such institution is in the process of receiving a new accreditation unless the institution submits to the Secretary all materials relating to the prior accreditation, including its reasons, if applicable, for changing the accrediting agency or association. Directs the Secretary to contract for, or establish, and publicize a toll-free telephone number as a consumer hotline for use by the public, to permit students to inform the Department of alleged fraud or unfair practices by eligible institutions. Directs the Secretary to make such hotline generally available to students receiving title IV financial assistance, through arrangements to use the facilities of institutions with program participation agreements. Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary to establish the National Student Loan Data System and to assure that such computerized System is operable by October 1, 1989. Requires guaranty agencies to: (1) furnish the Department with information to be used in the System, on the amount of, and other relevant data about, each loan under the Stafford Student Loan program; (2) expand and standardize the confirmation reports required by this Act to assure such information is provided at least bimonthly on delinquencies, defaults, and borrower status changes; and (3) provide the Secretary with complete and accurate data for the System on a quarterly basis. Authorizes the Secretary to require an institution to refund the student's tuition and fees in cases of violation, failure, or misrepresentation under title IV of the Act. Directs the Secretary to establish refund procedures which first require payment to the Federal Government and then require payment to the lender. Title IV: Amendments to the Needs Analysis Provisions - Revises need analysis provisions under title IV of the Act. Revises the definition of independent student. Modifies provisions for the computation of parents' contribution, for purposes of Pell Grant need analysis and general need analysis, to require that a family member be enrolled at an eligible institution in a postsecondary education program which meets specified requirements that it lead to a degree, certificate, or other recognized educational credential, in order for that family member to be counted as in college. Modifies Pell Grant need analysis provisions relating to student income. Revises eligibility determinations for single independent students or married independent students without other dependents, with respect to: (1) computations of student aid index and standard contribution from student's and spouse's income; (2) determinations of effective family income for single independent students without other dependents and for married independent students without other dependents; (3) total offsets against income; (4) assessment of discretionary income; and (5) contribution from student's and spouse's assets. Modifies general need analysis provisions relating to student income, with respect to determinations of appropriate income contributions. Reduces from 70 percent to 40 percent the amount of student income considered for purposes of expected contribution by: (1) a dependent student; and (2) an independent student without dependents. Sets forth special rules allowing student financial aid administrators to make necessary adjustments in need analysis with respect to the following groups in the following ways. Allows the costs of food and shelter for dependent care to be included in the cost of attendance, in the case of independent students with dependents and with incomes less than the Standard Maintenance Allowance. Allows projected income for the award year to be considered instead of income reported for the preceding tax year, and allows the primary residence to be excluded, in the calculation of the expected family contribution in the case of dislocated workers. Allows the net value of investments and real estate, including the primary residence, to be excluded in the calculation of expected family contribution, in the case of displaced homemakers. Excludes the net value of the principal place of residence from determinations of expected contributions under both Pell Grant and general need analysis. Title V: Other Higher Education Amendments - Revises provisions relating to the period of eligibility for Pell Grants to limit such period to the full-time equivalent of: (1) the number of academic years that the undergraduate degree normally requires, plus one academic year; or (2) six academic years in the case of a degree or certificate program normally requiring more than four academic years. Revises College Work-Study program eligibility standards to require that only need-based employment (employment that directly offsets educational expenses) be monitored for purposes of such eligibility determinations. Specifies that individuals serving in a medical internship or residency program leading to a degree or certificate awarded by a hospital or health care facility are eligible for certain two-year deferments from student loan repayment (but not eligible for certain others) under the FISL, Stafford Student Loan, and Direct Student Loan programs. Revises provisions relating to the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae). Revises provisions for its Board of Directors with respect to: (1) composition; (2) terms of elected and appointed members; (3) election of Chairman; (4) meetings; and (5) functions. Requires that there be a single class of voting common stock, and that previously held non-voting stock be converted to voting stock. Entitles these revisions as the Student Loan Marketing Association Amendments of 1988. Revises provisions for forms and regulations. Requires that the common Federal student aid application contain the minimum data elements necessary for determination of a student's financial need. Provides for collection and use of additional data. Requires competitive bidding to determine qualified processors, and sets forth criteria for participation in such bidding process. Requires eligible institutions to provide statements to student aid recipients listing the estimated student assistance, specifying the amount and type of assistance awarded under title IV of the Act, and indicating that such aid is federally supported. Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to no longer exclude programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 from GEPA audit provisions. Title VI: Effective Dates - Sets forth effective dates for various provisions of this Act.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the deduction for interest paid on education loans and to exclude from gross income the portion of a scholarship which covers living expenses while away from home.

United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1988

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for interest on a qualified educational loan incurred to pay the educational expenses (tuition, fees, books, supplies, reasonable living expenses) of the taxpayer, spouse, or dependent. Permits an exclusion from gross income of scholarship amounts used for a student's reasonable living expenses while attending school away from home.

A joint resolution designating the week beginning on January 8, 1989, as "National Journalism Education Week".

United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1988

Designates the week beginning January 8, 1989, as National Journalism Education Week.

National Geography Studies Centers Act

United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1988

National Geography Studies Centers Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to enter into a contract with the Education Foundation of the National Geographic Society (the contractor) to pay the Federal share (75 percent) of the cost of establishing and operating National Geography Studies Centers for the study of geography in elementary and secondary schools. Authorizes the contractor to enter into contracts with or make grants to local educational agencies, State educational agencies, State higher educational agencies, institutions of higher education, or consortia thereof, to establish and operate such Centers. Requires each Center to: (1) support programs for geography study by elementary and secondary school students, that may include laboratory schools and summer institutes; (2) support programs which provide elementary and secondary school teacher retraining and inservice training in geography; and (3) establish procedures, through an advisory panel, for selecting students and teachers for center-supported programs. Requires such procedures to take account of geographic distribution and the needs of students and teachers from historically underrepresented groups. Authorizes each Center to: (1) support development and dissemination of innovative geography cirricula; (2) develop geography curricula to be used in other subject areas; and (3) provide technical and resource assistance in geography to schools in the region served. Raises from six to seven percent the maximum portion of funds for Federal, State, and Local Partnerships for Educational Improvement which the Secretary is to reserve for National Programs and Activities. Includes the National Geography Studies Centers among such National Programs and Activities, and requires that a specified minimum amount be made available for such Centers, subject to the availability of funds for any fiscal year for National Programs and Activities.

Business and Citizen School Volunteers of America Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1988

Business and Citizen School Volunteers of America Act of 1988 - Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to eligible partnerships to assist such partnerships in preparing, expanding, and carrying out programs designed to use volunteers in elementary and secondary schools. (Defines eligible partnership as a volunteer program development agreement between: (1) an elementary or secondary school, State educational agency (SEA), and/or local educational agency (LEA); and (2) a government agency, nonprofit organization, institution of higher education, or business concern.) Sets forth priorities in the grant approval process. Sets forth types of programs for which such grants may be made. Directs the Secretary, when issuing rules for such grants program, to consult with nonprofit organizations that operate nationwide and that have as primary purposes assisting: (1) elementary and secondary schools in organizing, promoting, and using school volunteers; and (2) older Americans, employees of business concerns, educators, and students in becoming school volunteers. Sets forth grant eligibility and application requirements. Requires annual reports by: (1) grant recipients to the Secretary; and (2) the Secretary to specified congressional officers. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Center for Leadership in School Volunteer and Partnership Programs, through grants to or contracts with a nonprofit organization described in this Act. Requires the Center to: (1) train volunteers; (2) provide technical assistance to an eligible partnership in developing or improving a volunteer program; (3) conduct an annual survey of volunteer programs; and (4) evaluate volunteer programs. Requires that at least 20 percent of funds under this Act in any fiscal year be used for Center activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1993 to carry out this Act.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the number of students in each classroom in an elementary or secondary school in the United States should be decreased.

United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1988

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the number of students in each classroom in an elementary or secondary school in the United States should be decreased to not more than 26 students.

Student Default Initiative Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 7 July 1988

Student Default Initiative Act of 1988 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to lower the maximum amount of a Pell Grant for academic years 1990-1991 and 1991-1992. Eliminates provisions authorizing adjustments in Pell Grant payments when appropriations are insufficient. Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary), when appropriations are insufficient, to draw funds from subsequent year appropriations for Pell Grants, up to ten percent of such preceding fiscal year's appropriations. Revises provisions relating to the period of eligibility for Pell Grants to limit such period to the full-time equivalent of: (1) the number of academic years that the undergraduate degree normally requires, plus one academic year; or (2) six academic years in the case of a degree or certificate program normally requiring more than four academic years. Requires that insurance program agreements to qualify loans for Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) interest subsidies provide that the lender must promptly notify the borrower (and that the guaranty agency must notify, upon request of such institution, the last institution the student was attending prior to the beginning of repayment) of: (1) any sale or other transfer of the loan to another holder; and (2) such holder's address and phone number. Makes such notification requirements applicable if: (1) the borrower is in the grace period or in repayment status; and (2) the sale or transfer results in the student's being required to make payments, or to direct other matters related to the loan, to a person other than the person to whom such payments where made or such matters were directed before the sale or transfer. Requires such GSL interest subsidy insurance program agreements to require the guaranty agency to provide preclaims assistance for default prevention. Requires guaranty agencies, in order to inform eligible institutions of the loan status of their former students, to notify such institutions and furnish information on any such students who are in default of the repayment of any loan under the GSL program or who have entered repayment on such a loan after such a default. Revises loan consolidation eligibility standards to include delinquent or defaulted borrowers who will reenter repayment through loan consolidation (if they also meet other conditions for consolidation). Sets forth additional requirements with respect to disbursement of student loans. Requires multiple disbursement of student loans under the GSL program. Requires that any such loan for $1,000 or more for an enrollment period ending more than 180 days or six months after the disbursement date, be disbursed in two or more installments, none of which exceeds one-half of the loan. Requires a minimum interval between the first and second installments. Requires such interval to be at least one-half of the enrollment period, except as necessary to permit disbursement of the second installment at the beginning of the second semester, quarter, or similar division of such enrollment period. Sets forth requirements for the initial disbursement. Requires that the first installment of the proceeds of any GSL program loan to a new student borrower entering the first undergraduate year: (1) be disbursed by check or other negotiable instrument that is payable to and requires the endorsement or other certification by such student (in the manner required under specified GSL provisions for the insurance program agreements to qualify loans for interest subsidies); (2) not be negotiated by the institution until 15 days after the beginning of the enrollment period; and (3) not be negotiated at the end of the enrollment period unless the student continues to be enrolled in good standing at the institution and has received specified loan counseling at an entrance interview conducted by the institution. Prohibits disbursement of loans to any other student more than 30 days before the beginning of the enrollment period. Sets forth requirements for methods of multiple disbursement. Requires the lender or escrow agent to withhold a second or succeeding installment if the borrower has ceased to be enrolled on at least a half-time basis, unless notified by the institution that the disbursement is necessary to cover costs already earned by the institution. Requires the institution to withhold and return to the lender or escrow agent any portion of an installment which exceeds the amount for which the student is eligible. Provides that all loans issued for the same enrollment period shall be considered a single loan for specified purposes. Excludes from such additional disbursement requirements parent (PLUS) loans, consolidation loans, and loans to cover study at an institution outside the United States. Provides for transmittal of institutional disbursement schedules to lenders. Applies such additional disbursement requirements to the GSL and Federally insured student loan (FISL) programs. Directs the Secretary, guaranty agency, eligible lender, or subsequent holder to disclose to credit bureau organizations any information concerning the date a delinquency began and the repayment status of any loan that has been delinquent for 90 days. Requires that the borrower be informed that such organizations will be notified of such delinquency. Requires eligible lenders to include in required disclosures to borrowers before disbursement and before repayment: (1) an explanation of the availability of deferments; and (2) a statement that the borrower should notify the lender of the reasons for any failure to make a payment when it is due. Directs the Secretary to promulgate guidelines for eligible institutions to use to encourage student loan repayment in accordance with GSL program provisions as amended by this Act. Requires such guidelines to include: (1) an explicit delineation of legal restrictions and requirements relating to disclosure of borrower records to third parties, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and any other applicable Federal law; and (2) a model program, including sample letters and telephone contact scripts, in a format for easy copying by institutions. Sets forth requirements for default reduction agreements. Directs the Secretary, within three months of enactment of this Act, to submit to specified congressional committees a plan to establish a comprehensive schedule of program reviews for all eligible institutions, guaranty agencies, and lenders participating in the loan programs authorized under title IV (Student Assistance) of HEA. Requires that such plan be designed to accomplish all such reviews within five years, with priority attention to agencies and institutions experiencing difficulties administering such programs. Requires such plan to include estimates of budgetary and personnel requirements for carrying out such reviews. Prohibits the Secretary from implementing any such plan until 30 days after its submission to such committees. Directs the Secretary, at the end of each fiscal year, to report to such committees on implementation and proposed modifications of the plan. Directs the Secretary, by September 30, 1990, and annually thereafter, to send the Congress an annual default report, including: (1) the annual default rate for each guaranty agency, eligible lender, and higher education institution participating in the GSL program; (2) the annual dollars in default for each such institution, agency, and lender; and (3) the average national cumulative default rate. Directs the Secretary, within 90 days of the publication of each such report, to initiate program reviews at those institutions that fall in the top five percent of: (1) all institutions ranked by annual default rates (excluding institutions with less than 25 GSL program loans outstanding); or (2) all institutions ranked by annual dollars in default (excluding institutions whose annual default rate is less than the average national cumulative default rate of all institutions). Excluding institutions whose annual default rate is less than the average national cumulative default rate of all institutions). Excludes from such rankings, for purposes of identifying institutions required to participate in a default reduction agreement, any institutions which are engaged in such agreements or for which waivers have been granted. Sets forth the required contents of program reviews. Directs the Secretary, within 30 days of completion of the program review, to enter into a negotiated default reduction agreement with the institution, based on review findings. Sets forth conditions which the default reduction agreement may include. Allows waivers of the required default reduction agreement for an institution, if the Secretary determines that compliance with such requirement will not lead to a significant reduction of the institution's annual default rate or annual dollars in default. Limits the duration of such an agreement to three years, and requires at least one evaluation by the Department of Education during such time. Provides for termination of the agreement if, during an interim evaluation, it is determined that the institution no longer would be subject to program review. Directs the Secretary to assess the institution's compliance with the agreement upon its expiration. Provides for an exemption from the requirement of subsequent agreements for up to three years if an institution has fully complied with its most recent agreement and remains in the top five percent of all institutions in annual default rates or annual dollars in default. Directs the Secretary to initiate a limitation, suspension, or termination proceeding with respect to an institution's eligibility to participate in HEA title IV (Student Assistance) programs if it refuses to enter into, or fails substantially to comply with, a default reduction agreement. Prohibits the Secretary from initiating any such proceeding solely on the basis of the default rate of the borrowers who attended any institution (whether or not that institution has been the subject of a program review or default reduction agreement). Directs the Secretary annually to expend specified amounts from the student loan insurance fund for default reduction management activities (in addition to other appropriations made for such purposes). Sets forth activities for which such funds may be used. Directs the Secretary: (1) to submit a plan, to accompany the President's budget for each fiscal year, detailing fund expenditures; and (2) at the conclusion of each fiscal year, to report findings and activities relating to such expenditure of funds to specified congressional committees. Requires that a specified amount of such funds be used to carry out certain HEA provisions for training in financial aid and student support services. Increases and extends through FY 1991 the authorization of appropriations to carry out such training provisions. Makes eligible institutions (in addition to lenders and guaranty agencies) liable under certain civil penalty provisions of part B (the GSL program) of title IV of HEA. Applies such penalties also to repeated violations of such part or regulations prescribed under it (provides that multiple instances of the same servicing error or omission shall not be considered "repeated violations" unless they are not corrected after the lender, institution, or agency knows or should, in the exercise of reasonable care, know that the error or omission is in violation of such provisions). Provides that a lender or guaranty agency shall not be relieved of civil liability because of its cure of the violation, correction of a failure, or its notification of a person who received a substantial misrepresentation of the actual nature of the financial charges involved, if the remedy is made after the Department of Education discovers such violation, failure, or misrepresentation. Authorizes the Secretary, in approving or disapproving an accrediting agency whose accreditation of an institution of higher education will be a condition of the institution's eligibility under the GSL program, to take into account the extent to which such agency: (1) reviews the academic programs and performance of institutions for which a program review is required under default reduction provisions of this Act; and (2) performs inspections and reviews of such institutions, with particular attention to dropout rates and job placement rates as indicators of inadequate counseling and instructional programs and causes of such default rates. Prohibits an institution from being certified or recertified as eligible for the GSL program or other title IV (Student Assistance) programs of HEA if it: (1) has had its accreditation withdrawn, revoked, or otherwise terminated for cause during the preceding 24 months; or (2) has withdrawn from accreditation voluntarily under a show cause or suspension order during such period. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to an institution: (1) whose accreditation has been restored by the same accrediting agency that had accredited it prior to the withdrawal, revocation, or termination; or (2) which has demonstrated its academic integrity to the Secretary's satisfaction, in accordance with specified HEA provisions. Sets forth a restriction on need analysis for parents who are not enrolled in a postsecondary degree or certificate program, under provisions for determining family contributions for dependent students and for independent students with dependents. Authorizes student financial administrators to adjust the cost of attendance for independent students with dependents to include costs of food and shelter for dependent care when such students' income is less than a standard maintenance authority (by providing that such a determination is within the administrators' discretionary power to make necessary adjustments). Revises general need analysis provisions for student assistance programs under HEA to exclude from the term "assets" the net value of: (1) the family's principal place of residence; (2) a family farm on which the family resides; or (3) a small business substantially owned and managed by a member or members of the family. Directs the Secretary, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, to submit to the Congress such recommendations for changes to parts A (Grants to Students in Attendance at Institutions of Higher Education) and F (Need Analysis) of title IV of HEA as may be necessary to achieve an equitable assessment of income and assets after the exclusions of the home, family farm, and small business from the assets. Provides that such changes may include changes in the assets protection allowances, asset conversion rates, and other factors used in the determination of expected family contribution. Sets forth a definition of academic year (current law requires that such term be defined by the Secretary by regulation). Sets forth circumstances under which such term can be defined on a credit hour or clock hour basis. Permits waivers of other criteria regarding length of a course if an eligible institution offering a combination correspondence/residential training program: (1) satisfies all requirements otherwise imposed by the Secretary and the institution's accrediting agency; and (2) has courses which meet the minimum standards, either by clock or credit hours, required for participation in any loan or grant program under title IV of HEA. Revises provisions for admission of students on the basis of their ability to benefit from education or training. Requires that such students meet all of specified criteria (currently they must only meet some of such criteria) in order to remain eligible for student assistance programs under title IV of HEA. Deems tuition and fees "unearned," for refund policy purposes, in proportion to the fraction of the enrollment period remaining at the time the student withdraws. Provides that the institution shall be treated as earning initial administrative expenses at the beginning of such enrollment period, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Requires institutions, under student aid program participating agreements and upon notification from the guarantee agency of a students default, to withhold academic transcripts of student borrowers in default of any HEA title IV loan unless this: (1) will prevent the borrower from obtaining employment and repaying the loan; or (2) would be unjust or improper due to extraordinary circumstances. Prohibits institutions, under student aid program participation agreements, from: (1) using any independent contractor or anyone other than a salaried employee of the institution to conduct any canvassing, surveying, promotion, or similar activities; (2) using any contractor or anyone other than a salaried employee of the institution to make final determinations that an individual meets the institution's admissions requirements or the criteria of eligibility for financial aid; or (3) paying any commission, bonus, or other incentive to any person making such final determination. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations for the limitation, suspension, or termination of eligibility of an individual or organization to administer any aspect of an institution's student assistance program. Limits such suspensions to 60 days, unless the organization and the Secretary agree to an extension, or unless limitation or termination proceedings are initiated. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study and make recommendations relating to the appropriate actions to take in the event that one or more guaranty agencies become insolvent. Sets forth types of standards, procedures, and steps which the Secretary must examine and make recommendations upon. Directs the Secretary to complete such study within six months after enactment of this Act, and file a report, with recommendations, with specified congressional committees. Prohibits the Secretary from issuing regulations concerning the determination of guaranty agency insolvency and the remedies for such insolvency unless the Congress provides such specific authority upon receipt and consideration of such study. Makes a technical amendment to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985. Sets forth clerical and technical amendments to HEA.

Library Improvement Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1988

Library Improvement Act of 1988 - Provides assistance for: (1) library services for economically disadvantaged or handicapped individuals; (2) library resource sharing; and (3) library research and assessment of services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1993 to carry out this Act. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make specified allotments or reallotments to States from funds for titles I and II of this Act. Sets forth State application requirements. Title I: Library Services to Disadvantaged Americans - Directs the Secretary to make grants, from State allotments, to States to carry out projects or activities that provide new or expand existing library services to economically disadvantaged or handicapped individuals to enhance their educational opportunities or to facilitate their greater use of such services. Permits State library administrative agencies to support projects either directly or through grants to, or contracts with, public or private entities, including Indian tribes. Allows such projects to include joint projects among libraries and other types of institutions, such as schools. Specifies kinds of library projects and activities which States may support with title I funds. Requires States to use title I funds only for the support of new, or the expansion of existing, projects or activities. Prohibits States from using such funds to: (1) support a project or activity for more than five years; (2) acquire, expand, or construct buildings, other than minor remodeling to improve access to libraries or library services for handicapped individuals; or (3) pay State administrative costs under this title. Title II: Library Resource Sharing - Part A: State Grants - Directs the Secretary to make grants, from State allotments, to States to develop new, and expand existing, interstate and intrastate library networks. Permits State library administrative agencies to support projects either directly or through grants to or contracts with public or private entities, including Indian tribes. Prohibits States from using part A funds to: (1) support a new, or expand an existing, intrastate library network for more than five years; or (2) pay State administrative costs under this part. But allows a State to expend up to five percent of its grant for any fiscal year for the planning of interstate library network. Part B: Discretionary Awards - Directs the Secretary, from reserved funds, and through grants to or cooperative agreements or contracts with public or private entities, to develop new, or expand existing, interstate library networks. Part C: General Provisions - Specifies kinds of projects and activities for which part A or B funds may be used. Title III: Library Research and Assessment - Directs the Secretary, either directly or through grants to or contracts or cooperative agreements with public or private entities, to support library research and assessment projects and activities to improve library services. Specifies authorized uses for such funds. Title IV: Repeals and Effective Date - Repeals: (1) the Library Services and Construction Act; (2) title II (Academic Library and Information Technology Enhancement Research) of the Higher Education Act of 1965; and (3) provisions of the Higher Education Amendments of 1986 for a study of the effectiveness of the needs criteria for the college library resource program. Sets forth the effective date of this Act.

Estimates, 1988. - Votes 27-30: Department of Education (Revised Estimates) (Resumed).

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 June 1988

Question put.

A bill to establish education and prevention programs relating to the illicit use of drugs by youth.

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1988

Title I: Drug Education and Prevention Relating to Youth Gangs - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants and contracts for projects and activities for drug education and prevention relating to youth gangs. Includes among such projects: (1) prevention and reduction of youth drug abuse and participation in gang-committed, drug-related crimes; and (2) support of local law enforcement outreach activities. Sets forth grant and contract application requirements for public and nonprofit private agencies, organizations (including community-based organizations with demonstrated experience in this field), institutions, and individuals. Sets forth application approval priorities. Directs the Secretary of HHS to coordinate the program under this title with the programs and activities of the Attorney General and with those under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Title II: Innovative Alcohol Abuse Education Programs - Amends part F (Secretary's Fund for Innovation in Education) of title IV (Special Programs) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide for innovative alcohol abuse education programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to develop materials for such programs, especially ones that focus on the effect of the disease of alcoholism on the families of alcoholics, particularly the children. Requires that programs for which such materials are developed be designed to benefit young children, particularly those in grades five through eight. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to training programs for educators that are designed to: (1) increase awareness of children's problems that may be caused by an alcoholic parent; (2) enhance educators' ability to identify children at risk for alcohol abuse; (3) inform educators concerning referral of children of alcoholics for appropriate professional treatment; and (4) train educators to inform the public about the special problems of children who have an alcoholic parent. Title III: Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Programs for Incarcerated Individuals - Amends the Adult Education Act to allow certain funds set aside by a State to be used for the cost of drug abuse education and prevention programs and referral to drug abuse treatment programs for criminal offenders in corrections institutions. Title IV: National Youth Sports Program - Authorizes the Secretary of HHS to make grants to carry out a national youth sports program. Makes eligible for such grants organizations whose members are institutions of higher education with access to high-quality educational and sports facilities. Requires such a program to provide disadvantaged youth: (1) medical and nutrition services; (2) exposure to college and university campuses; (3) sports instruction and competition in settings that provide high quality facilities and supervision; and (4) related educational and counseling services (including instruction on drug and alcohol abuse prevention, educational and career opportunities, health and nutrition, study practices, and job responsibilities). Sets forth grant application requirements. Requires that at least 90 percent of youth participants be from families with incomes below the poverty line. Requires matching contributions from the eligible entities. Sets forth required activities under such program. Requires, in the application selection process, that special emphasis be placed on drug abuse education and prevention activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. (Provides that program grants will be used to carry out activities for a one-year period, concentrating such activities in June, July, and August.) Title V: Programs Relating to Juvenile Delinquency and to Runaway and Homeless Youth - Subtitle A: Program to Enhance Juvenile Delinquency Prevention - Part 1: Projects and Activities of State and Local Governments - Directs the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (the Administrator) to make grants to States to plan, establish, operate, coordinate, and evaluate projects, directly or through grants and contracts with public and private agencies, to: (1) develop more effective education, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services related to the illicit use of drugs by juveniles; (2) refer juveniles and their families to these and other appropriate services; and (3) coordinate such referral and services. Allots such funds to States on the basis of population of individuals less than 18 years old. Sets forth a minimum allotment for States and allotments for specified U.S. territories and possessions. Sets forth requirements for applications for allotments. Requires States to give priority to specified types of projects. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Part 2: Other Projects and Activities - Directs the Administrator to make grants to and contracts with, on a competitive basis, public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals for: (1) juvenile delinquency prevention or reduction through drug abuse education, prevention, and treatment; (2) research on illicit use of drugs by juveniles, effects on juveniles of illicit use of drugs by family members, and innovative and effective prevention and treatment of such use; (3) community outreach and counseling projects (involving juveniles providing services to juveniles) to reduce and prevent the illicit use of drugs; and (4) training and technical assistance for innovative and effective drug abuse education, prevention, and treatment provided to persons and organizations involved in juvenile delinquency prevention and treatment. Limits any such grant or contract to not more than three years' duration. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Part 3: Reports : Directs the Administrator, within 180 days after the end of a fiscal year for which funds are appropriated for this subtitle, to report to the President and specified congressional officers. Requires such report to: (1) describe the projects and activities for which each State spent funds received under part 1, and how each State coordinated these with projects and activities under specified Federal law; (2) summarize each project or activity which received part 2 funds, and evaluate their results; and (3) describe exemplary drug abuse education, prevention, and treatment projects and activities, particularly community-based juvenile delinquency prevention involving and assisting families of juveniles. Subtitle B: Program for Runaway and Homeless Youth - Directs the Secretary of HHS to make grants to public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions for research, demonstration, and services projects for runaway and homeless youth, especially relating to illicit use of drugs. Includes among such projects: (1) individual, family, and group counseling; (2) peer counseling; (3) community education, including outreach to individuals; (4) rural area assistance, including community support groups; (5) information and training to individuals providing services to such youth, including information on increased susceptibility to communicable diseases; (6) research on the effects on such youth of their own or family members' drug abuse, and correlations between such use and suicide attempts; and (7) improved availability and coordination for such youth of local drug abuse services. Directs the Secretary to give grant priority to agencies and organizations with experience in providing services to such youth. Limits any such grant to three years' duration. Directs the Secretary, within 180 days after the end of a fiscal year for which funds are appropriated for this subtitle, to report to the President and specified congressional officers. Requires such report to describe: (1) the types of projects and activities funded; (2) the number and characteristics of the youth and families served; and (3) exemplary projects and activities funded. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Sets forth requirements for submission and contents of applications under this title. Sets forth provisions for review of such applications. Title VI: Drug Abuse Education for Participants in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to include: (1) drug abuse among health problems covered by such Act; (2) drug abuse education along with the nutrition education provided under such Act; and (3) drug abuse education and instruction relating to such education under specified requirements for State plans. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, within six months after enactment of this Act, to study appropriate methods of drug abuse education instruction. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 and succeeding fiscal years to carry out such study. Adds two members to the National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant, and Fetal Nutrition. Requires that one such member be an expert in drug abuse education and prevention, and the other be an expert in alcohol abuse education and prevention. Title VII: Community-Based Volunteer Demonstration Projects for Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Services and Activities - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to authorize the Director of the ACTION Agency (the Director) to make grants to public and nonprofit organizations for innovative, community-based volunteer demonstration projects which provide comprehensive drug abuse education and prevention services and activities to youths during the summer months. Allows such projects to include: (1) extending effective school-based programs, or other programs operated during the school year, to the summer months; (2) summer recreational, volunteer service, and youth development activities to provide positive alternatives to illicit drug use; and (3) incorporating drug abuse education and prevention activities in public and private programs serving youth during the summer months. Gives priority to projects that serve high-risk youths and provide opportunities for parent involvement. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Title VIII: Definitions - Sets forth definitions for purposes of this Act.

Judgment of the Court of 21 June 1988.#Steven Malcolm Brown v The Secretary of State for Scotland.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Court of Session, Outer House (Scotland) - United Kingdom.#Non-discrimination - Access to university education - Training grants.#Case 197/86.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 21 June 1988

Judgment of the Court of 21 June 1988.#Sylvie Lair v Universität Hannover.#Reference for a preliminary ruling: Verwaltungsgericht Hannover - Germany.#Non-discrimination - Access to university education - Training grants.#Case 39/86.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 21 June 1988

Grundsätze der Aufnahme von Büchern in die Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (G-SIG: 11046943)

Germany · German Bundestag · 16 June 1988

Nurse Education Reauthorization Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1988

Nursing Shortage Reduction and Education Extension Act of 1988 - Title I: Initiatives to Reduce Nursing Shortages - Amends title VIII (Nursing Education) of the Public Health Service Act to create a new part on initiatives to reduce nursing shortages. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for demonstrating innovative hospital nursing practice models which include restructuring the role of the nurse, testing innovative wage structures, and evaluating the effectiveness of various benefits. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Directs the Secretary to provide, directly or through contracts, for evaluation of the models demonstrated and for dissemination of the information developed. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to nurse training entities: (1) to demonstrate innovative nursing practice models for services in the home and long-term care facilities designed to increase recruitment and retention of nurses and improve nursing care; and (2) to develop projects to increase the exposure of nursing students to clinical practice in nursing home, home health, and gerontologic settings. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the identification of specific community nursing needs and the development and establishment of programs of educational outreach and nurse recruitment. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Title II: Special Projects - Amends title VIII (Nurse Education) of the Public Health Service Act to replace provisions relating to nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds with a new subpart on the same topic. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for special projects to increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Prohibits the Secretary from approving or disapproving an application for a grant or contract until after consultation with the National Advisory Council on Nursing Training. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Removes provisions authorizing the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for special projects to: (1) provide retraining for nurses after periods of professional inactivity; (2) demonstrate clinical nurse education programs which combine educational curricula and clinical practice; and (3) demonstrate methods to encourage nursing graduates to practice in health manpower shortage areas. Replaces provisions authorizing grants and contracts for continuing education for nurses with provisions authorizing the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for special projects to demonstrate improved geriatric nursing training. Replaces provisions authorizing grants and contracts to increase the supply or improve the distribution of nurses with provisions authorizing the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for special projects to increase the supply of nurses, including bilingual nurses, to meet the needs of rural areas. Revises the description of nursing education special projects eligible for certain grants and contracts with regard to: (1) priorities in training and education to upgrade the skills of paraprofessional nursing personnel; (2) development of curricula for certain nursing baccalaureate and masters degree situations; (3) facilitation of the completion of advanced nurse education programs by certain specialists; and (4) provision of nursing education courses to rural areas through telecommunications via satellite. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for special projects to collect the names and addresses of health facilities and nursing students and nurses willing to enter into agreements under which the facilities would repay at least 25 percent of the educational loans for each year of nursing service of the individual in that facility. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts for geriatric nursing training. Requires applications for grants and contracts to be subject to peer review. Prohibits the Secretary from approving or disapproving an application unless the Secretary has received recommendations from the peer review group and has consulted with the National Advisory Council on Nurse Training. Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts for special projects in nurse education and for advanced nurse education for FY 1989 through 1991. Revises the guidelines for programs for the education of nurse practitioners and nurse midwives to require that they have not less than six full-time equivalent students. (Current law requires that they have eight students.) Allows service commitments by nurse practitioner or nurse midwife traineeship recipients to include service in an Indian Health Service health center, a Native Hawaiian health center, a migrant health center, or a community health center in addition to the currently-allowed service in a health manpower shortage area or a public health care facility. Authorizes appropriations for certain nurse practitioner and nurse midwife programs for FY 1989 through 1991. Title III: Assistance to Nursing Students - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for traineeships for students enrolled at least half-time in nursing masters degree programs who agree to complete the degree requirements by the end of the academic year in which the student is to receive the traineeship. Authorizes appropriations for traineeships for advanced education of professional nurses for FY 1989 through 1991. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for traineeships for licensed registered nurses to become nurse anesthetists and for projects to develop and operate programs for the education of nurse anesthetists. Authorizes appropriations for traineeships for nurse anesthetists for FY 1989 through 1991. Includes, as qualifying for loan repayment under specified provisions, nursing service in an Indian Health Service health center, a Native Hawaiian health center, a public hospital, a migrant health center, a community health center, a nonprofit nursing facility, or a health facility determined by the Secretary to have a critical shortage of nurses. Sets forth financial need and geographic priorities in entering into loan repayment agreements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Amends title VIII (Nurse Education) of the Public Health Service Act to create a new subpart on scholarships. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for scholarships for nursing students in financial need. Requires applicant schools to agree to: (1) give priority in providing scholarships to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds; and (2) require student recipients of the scholarships to agree to serve as nurses at least two years in specified types of facilities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Title IV: General Provisions of Title VIII - Changes the composition of the National Advisory Council on Nurse Training to increase the number of members and require representation by practicing professional nurses and from associate degree schools of nursing. Amends title VIII (Nurse Education) of the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide, directly or through contract, for evaluations of projects carried out under this title and for dissemination of information developed as a result of the projects. Sets forth reporting requirements. Title V: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective dates of this Act.

A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prevent double-counting of income in the conduct of needs analysis for student assistance under that Act.

United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1988

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prevent double-counting of income in the conduct of needs analysis for student assistance programs under such Act.

A bill to require institutions of higher education receiving Federal financial assistance to provide certain information with respect to the graduation rates of student-athletes at such institutions.

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1988

Requires institutions of higher education receiving Federal assistance to provide certain information with respect to the graduation rates of student-athletes. (Includes information on fields of study, race, and sex under such requirement.) Requires such institutions to report such information annually to the Secretary of Education and to include it in their letters of intent to prospective students who are candidates for athletic scholarships. Directs the Secretary to compile and publish a report containing such information.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that Project Impact of the Combined Accident Reduction Effort should receive the support of every State in the Nation and should be recognized as model project for education of the Nation's youth.

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1988

Expresses the sense of the Congress that Project Impact of the Combined Accident Reduction Effort (concerned with alcohol and drug abuse) should receive the support of every State and should be recognized as a model project for educating the Nation's youth.

Student Default Initiative Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1988

Student Default Initiative Act of 1988 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to lower the maximum amount of a Pell Grant for academic years 1989-1990, 1990-1991, and 1991-1992. Eliminates provisions authorizing adjustments in Pell Grant payments when appropriations are insufficient. Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary), when appropriations are insufficient, to draw funds from subsequent year appropriations for Pell Grants. Revises provisions relating to the period of eligibility for Pell Grants to limit such period to the full-time equivalent of: (1) the number of academic years that the undergraduate degree normally requires, plus one academic year; or (2) six academic years in the case of a degree or certificate program normally requiring more than four academic years. Requires that insurance program agreements to qualify loans for Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) interest subsidies provide that the lender must promptly notify the borrower (and the last institution the student attended before the beginning of repayment) of: (1) any sale or other transfer of the loan to another holder; and (2) such holder's address and phone number. Requires such agreements to require the guaranty agency to provide preclaims assistance for default prevention. Revises provisions under the Supplemental Loans for Students (SLS) program. Revises the conditions of SLS eligibility of undergraduate dependent students. Requires "exceptional" (rather than "extenuating") circumstances to preclude such a student's parents from borrowing under the parent loan (PLUS loan) program. Requires appropriate documentation that such circumstances exist to be maintained in the institution's records to support such determination. Reduces the amount of an individual's SLS loan eligibility by the amount of such individual's GSL loan eligibility (added to other financial aid). Sets forth additional requirements with respect to disbursement of student loans. Requires multiple disbursement of student loans under part B of title IV of the Act. Requires that any such loan for $1,000 or more for an enrollment period ending more than 180 days or six months after the disbursement date, be disbursed in two or more installments, none of which exceeds one-half of the loan. Requires a minimum interval between the first and second installments. Requires such interval to be at least one-half of the enrollment period, except as necessary to permit disbursement of the second installment at the beginning of the second semester, quarter, or similar division of such enrollment period. Sets forth requirements for the initial disbursement. Prohibits disbursement of the first installment to a new student borrower entering the first undergraduate year until: (1) 30 days after the beginning of the enrollment period; and (2) the institution certifies to the lender that the student continues to be enrolled in good standing at the institution and has received specified loan counseling. Prohibits disbursement of loans to any other student more than 30 days before the beginning of the enrollment period. Sets forth requirements for methods of multiple disbursement. Requires the lender or escrow agent to withhold a second or succeeding installment if the borrower has ceased to be enrolled on at least a half-time basis, unless notified by the institution that the disbursement is necessary to cover costs already earned by the institution. Requires the institution to withhold and return to the lender or escrow agent any portion of an installment which exceeds the amount for which the student is eligible. Provides that all loans issued for the same enrollment period shall be considered a single loan for specified purposes. Excludes from such additional disbursement requirements parent (PLUS) loans, consolidation loans, and loans to cover study at an institution outside the United States. Provides for transmittal of institutional disbursement schedules to lenders. Applies such additional disbursement requirements to the GSL, SLS, and federally insured student loan (FISL) programs. Directs the Secretary, guaranty agency, eligible lender, or subsequent holder to disclose to credit bureau organizations any information concerning the date a delinquency began and the repayment status of any loan that has been delinquent for 90 days. Requires that the borrower be informed that such organizations will be notified of such delinquency. Sets forth requirements for default reduction agreements. Directs the Secretary, by September 30, 1990, and annually thereafter, to send the Congress an annual default report, including: (1) the annual default rate for each guaranty agency, eligible lender, and higher education institution participating in the part B, title IV program; and (2) the annual dollars in default for each such institution. Directs the Secretary or a designated guaranty agency, within 90 days of the publication of each such report, to initiate program reviews at those institutions that fall in the top five percent of: (1) all institutions ranked by annual default rates; or (2) all institutions ranked by annual dollars in default. Sets forth the required contents of program reviews. Directs the Secretary or the designated State guaranty agency, within 30 days of completion of the program review, to enter into a negotiated default reduction agreement with the institution, based on review findings. Sets forth conditions which the default reduction agreement may include. Allows waivers of the required program review or default reduction agreement for an institution if the Secretary determines that compliance with such requirement will not lead to a significant reduction of the institution's annual default rate or annual dollars in default. Limits the duration of such an agreement to three years and requires at least one program review by the Department of Education or the designated State guaranty agency during such time. Provides for termination of the agreement if, during an interim review, it is determined that the institution no longer would be subject to program review. Directs the Secretary or the designated guaranty agency to assess the institution's compliance with the agreement upon its expiration. Provides for an exemption from the requirement of subsequent agreements for up to three years if an institution has fully complied with its most recent agreement and remains in the top five percent of all institutions in annual default rates or annual dollars in default. Directs the Secretary to initiate a limitation, suspension, or termination proceeding with respect to an institution's eligibility to participate in title IV (Student Assistance) programs if it refuses to enter into, or fails substantially to comply with, a default reduction agreement. Prohibits the Secretary from initiating any such proceeding solely on the basis of the default rate of the borrowers at such institution. Directs the Secretary, if the Secretary designates a State guaranty agency to carry out such review and agreement requirements, to enter into a contract and pay such agency reasonable compensation. Excludes institutions engaged in a default reduction agreement from the ranking of institutions by default rates or dollars in default. Directs the Secretary to annually expend specified amounts from the student loan insurance fund for default reduction management activities (in addition to other appropriations made for such purposes). Sets forth activities for which such funds may be used. Directs the Secretary: (1) to submit a plan, to accompany the President's budget for each fiscal year, detailing fund expenditures; and (2) at the conclusion of each fiscal year, to report findings and activities relating to such expenditure of funds to specified congressional committees. Makes eligible institutions (in addition to lenders and guaranty agencies) liable under certain civil penalty provisions of part B of title IV of the Act. Applies such penalties also to repeated violations of such part or regulations prescribed under it. Provides that a lender or guaranty agency shall not be relieved of civil liability because of its cure of the violation, correction of a failure, or its notification of a person who received a substantial misrepresentation of the actual nature of the financial charges involved, if the remedy is made after the Department of Education discovers such violation, failure, or misrepresentation. Repeals: (1) limitations on such civil penalties; and (2) consideration of several violations arising from a specified practice as a single violation. Prohibits an institution from being certified or recertified as eligible for the student loan insurance or other title IV (Student Assistance) programs if it: (1) has had its accreditation withdrawn, revoked, or otherwise terminated for cause during the preceding 24 months; or (2) has withdrawn from accreditation voluntarily under a show cause or suspension order during such period. Sets forth a definition of academic year (current law requires that such term be defined by the Secretary by regulation). Sets forth circumstances under which such term can be defined on a credit hour or clock hour basis. Provides that SLS and GSL loan recipients must have: (1) received a determination of eligibility or ineligibility for a Pell Grant for the relevant period of enrollment; and (2) filed an application for such a grant, if determined to be eligible. Requires, for eligibility for an SLS loan for any period of enrollment, that a student who is not a graduate or professional student must have: (1) received a determination of need for a GSL loan; and (2) applied for such a loan, if determined to have need for it. Revises provisions for admission of students on the basis of their ability to benefit from education or training. Presumes an institution to have established acceptable criteria for such admissions if it annually certifies to the Secretary that its admissions procedures for such students include counseling and a validated test of aptitude to complete the program successfully. Requires an institution to maintain complete records of the admissions criteria used for all students admitted on the basis of ability to benefit. Prohibits the Secretary from promulgating regulations defining such examination or other criteria used by an institution for such purposes. Deems tuition and fees "unearned," for refund policy purposes, in proportion to the fraction of the enrollment period remaining at the time the student withdraws. Provides that the institution shall be treated as earning initial administrative expenses at the beginning of such enrollment period, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Requires institutions, under student aid program participating agreements, to withhold academic transcripts of student borrowers in default on any title IV loan unless this: (1) will prevent the borrower from obtaining employment and repaying the loan; or (2) would be unjust or improper due to extraordinary circumstances. Prohibits institutions, under student aid program participation agreements, from: (1) using any contractor or anyone other than a salaried employee to conduct any activities related to recruiting and admission of students; or (2) paying any commission, bonus, or other incentive to any person engaged in any such activity. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations for the limitation, suspension, or termination of eligibility of an individual or organization to administer any aspect of an institution's student assistance program. Limits such suspensions to 60 days, unless the organization and the Secretary agree to an extension, or unless limitation or termination proceedings are initiated.

Student-Athlete Right-to-Know Act

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1988

Student-Athlete Right-to-Know Act - Requires institutions of higher education receiving Federal assistance to provide certain information with respect to the graduation rates of student-athletes. (Includes information on fields of study, race, and sex under such requirement.) Requires such institutions to report such information annually to the Secretary of Education and to include it in their letters of intent to prospective students who are candidates for athletic scholarships. Directs the Secretary to compile and publish a report containing such information.

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989

United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1988

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989 - Makes appropriations for FY 1989 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies. Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 1989 - Makes appropriations for the Employment and Training Administration, for: (1) employment and training programs administration; (2) training and employment services; (3) community service employment for older Americans; (4) Federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (5) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; and (6) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and other funds. Makes appropriations for Labor-Management Services, for salaries and expenses, with a specified amount for a pension plan data base. Makes appropriations for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Fund and other expenses. Makes appropriations for the Employment Standards Administration, for: (1) salaries and expenses; (2) special benefits (including transfer of funds); and (3) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund (including transfer of funds). Makes appropriations for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, for salaries and expenses. Makes appropriations for the Mine Safety and Health Administration, for salaries and expenses. Makes appropriations for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for salaries and expenses. Makes appropriations for Departmental Management, for: (1) salaries and expenses; (2) the Assistant Secretary for Veterans Employment and Training; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General. Sets forth general provisions relating to such appropriations for the Department of Labor. Prohibits appropriations under this Act from being used to grant variances, interim orders or letters of clarification to employers which will allow exposure of workers to chemicals or other workplace hazards in excess of existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards for the purpose of conducting experiments on workers' health or safety. Prohibits appropriations in this Act from being obligated or expended to close any Job Corps Center operating prior to January 1, 1990. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 1989 - Makes appropriations for the Health Resources and Services Administration, for: (1) health resources and services program operations (including specified funds for the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center); and (2) the medical facilities guarantee and loan fund, and Federal interest subsidies for medical facilities. Earmarks specified funds for non-acute care facilities for AIDS patients. Makes appropriations for the Centers for Disease Control, for disease control, research, and training (including compensation for survivors of victims of the Tuskegee, Alabama, syphilis experiments of 1932). Makes appropriations for the National Institutes of Health, for: (1) the National Cancer Institute; (2) the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; (3) the National Institute of Dental Research; (4) the National Institute of Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; (5) the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; (6) the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; (7) the National Institute of General Medical Sciences; (8) the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; (9) the National Eye Institute; (10) the National Institute of Environmental Health Services; (11) the National Institute on Aging; (12) the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases; (13) research resources; (14) the National Center for Nursing Research; (15) the John E. Fogarty International Center, with a payment for the Gorgas Memorial Institute; (16) the National Library of Medicine; (17) the Office of the Director; and (18) buildings and facilities. Makes appropriations to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, for: (1) alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health programs; and (2) the Federal subsidy for Saint Elizabeths Hospital, in the District of Columbia. Makes appropriations for the Office of Assistant Secretary for Health, for: (1) Public Health Service management; (2) retirement pay and medical benefits for commissioned officers; and (3) the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund. Makes appropriations for the Health Care Financing Administration, for: (1) grants to States for Medicaid; (2) payments to the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds; and (3) program management. Makes appropriations for the Social Security Administration, for: (1) payments to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds; (2) special benefits for disabled coal miners; (3) the Supplemental Security Income Program; and (4) a limited amount of administrative expenses. Makes appropriations for the Family Support Administration, for: (1) family support payments to States or other non-Federal entities; (2) low-income home energy assistance; (3) the Community Services Block Grant; and (4) program administration. Makes appropriations for the Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services, for: (1) the Social Services Block Grant; (2) human development services (including programs for older Americans, Native Americans, child abuse and family violence prevention, dependent care, Head Start, and child development centers and associate scholarships); and (3) payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance. Makes appropriations for Departmental Management, for: (1) general departmental management; (2) the Office of the Inspector General; (3) the Office for Civil Rights; and (4) policy research. Sets forth general provisions relating to such appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services. Prohibits funds contained in this Act from being used to perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to assign not more than 60 Public Health Service employees to assist in child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs through and with funds provided by the Agency for International Development, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization. Allows funds available in this title for activities related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) to be transferred between appropriation accounts, upon the approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of a transfer request submitted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1989 - Makes appropriations for: (1) compensatory education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs (including homeless assistance); (4) bilingual, immigrant, and refugee education; (5) education for the handicapped; (6) rehabilitation services and handicapped research (including the Helen Keller National Center); (7) vocational and adult education; (8) student financial assistance (including Pell grants, supplemental educational opportunity grants, grants to States for State student incentives, work-study programs, the income contingent direct loan demonstration project, and direct loans to students in institutions of higher education); (9) the Guaranteed Student Loan program; (10) higher education institutional aid, for strengthening institutions, including historically black colleges and universities; (11) college housing and academic facilities loans; (12) higher education facilities loans; (13) college housing loans; (14) education research and statistics (including the National Assessment of Educational Progress); and (15) libraries. Makes appropriations for the following special institutions: (1) the American Printing House for the Blind; (2) the National Technical Institute for the Deaf; (3) Gallaudet University (partial support), the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and the National Center for Law and the Deaf; and (4) Howard University (partial support). Makes appropriations for Departmental Management, for: (1) program administration; (2) the Office for Civil Rights; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General. Sets forth general provisions relating to such appropriations for the Department of Education. Prohibits funds under this title from being used to force any school or school district which is desegregated to take any action to force the busing of students or the school's abolishment or the transfer of students to or from the school, on account of race, creed, or color, over the protest of the student's parents or as a condition precedent to obtaining otherwise available Federal funds. Prohibits appropriations in this Act from being used for the transportation of students or teachers (or the purchase of equipment for such transportation) to overcome racial imbalance or carry out a racial desegregation plan in any school or school system. Prohibits funds under this Act from being used, directly or indirectly, to require the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home (including any indirect requirement of student transportation to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools). Excludes from such prohibition: (1) transportation of students requiring special education to a school for such purpose; and (2) the establishment of magnet schools. Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in the public schools. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for the following agencies: (1) ACTION; (2) the Commission on Railroad Retirement Reform; (3) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (4) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (5) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (6) the National Commission on Migrant Education; (7) the National Commission on Responsibilities for Financing Postsecondary Education; (8) the National Council on the Handicapped; (9) the National Labor Relations Board; (10) the National Mediation Board; (11) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (12) the Physician Payment Review Commission; (13) the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; (14) the Railroad Retirement Board (for payments to the Dual Benefits Payments Account and to the railroad retirement accounts, with specified limitations on administrative expenses, the railroad unemployment insurance administration fund, and review activities); and (15) the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home (for operation and maintenance, and for construction and renovation of the physical plant). Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth general provisions relating to appropriations under this Act. Prohibits appropriations under this Act from being used to pay for any research, experimentation, or other activity involving human participants without their written, informed consent (or the consent of parents or legal guardian, where the participant is under 18), if such activity is determined to present a danger to their well-being. Directs the National Institutes of Health, in administering funds made available under this Act for research relating to the treatment of AIDS, to ensure that all experimental drugs for the treatment of AIDS, particularly antivirals and immunomodulators, that have shown some effectiveness in treating individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus are tested in clinical trials as expeditiously as possible and with as many subjects as scientifically acceptable.

A bill to grant a Federal charter to The American Education Center Hall of Fame.

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1988

Grants a Federal charter to the American Education Center-Hall of Fame, a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri.

Nursing Education and Incentives Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1988

Nursing Education and Incentives Act of 1988 - Title I: Special Projects - Amends title VIII (Nurse Education) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for special project grants and contracts under specified provisions, setting forth certain priorities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991 for not less than eight innovative demonstration projects each fiscal year to upgrade nursing skills, with projects distributed geographically proportionate to the need. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of nursing for projects relating to geriatrics. Requires peer review of applications. Prohibits approval or disapproval of an application unless the Secretary has received peer review recommendations and has consulted with the National Advisory Council on Nurse Training. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1991. Title II: Assistance to Nursing Students - Directs the Secretary to make grants to schools of nursing for traineeships for students in the final academic year of nursing master's degree programs, giving priority to programs involving nurse practitioners, clinical specialists, nurse midwives, and specialties requiring advanced education. Authorizes appropriations for these and other nursing traineeships for FY 1989 through 1991. Includes, as qualifying for loan repayment under specified provisions, nursing service in an Indian Health Service health center, a Native Hawaiian health center, certain hospitals, a migrant health center, a community health center, a nursing facility, or other health facilities as the Secretary determines. Authorizes appropriations for loan repayments for FY 1989 through 1991. Title III: General Provisions of Title VIII - Amends title VIII (Nurse Education) of the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary to provide for evaluations of projects carried out under title VIII and for the dissemination of information developed as a result of the projects. Sets forth reporting requirements. Title IV: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act.

A bill to achieve greater accountability in Federal student assistance programs, to minimize the potential for waste and abuse, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1988

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise and add provisions relating to title IV (Student Assistance) programs. Eliminates a requirement that at least 85 percent of Pell Grant payment funds be advanced to eligible institutions before the start of each payment period. Limits Pell Grant individual eligibility to three academic years in the case of an undergraduate degree or certificate program normally requiring two years or less. Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to prescribe regulations reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of Pell Grant provisions. Requires institutional accountability plans under the allocation of funds provisions of the supplemental education opportunity grant (SEOG) program and the work-study program. Permits adjustments of an institution's allocation if it fails to meet the performance goals established in its accountability plan. Requires participating institutions to develop such plans to assess, in quantifiable terms, their success in providing an education of demonstrable value to their students. Directs the Secretary to publish and take public comment on: (1) a number of criteria from which an institution shall select those to be included in its plans; and (2) minimum standards for evaluating institutional performance. Directs the Secretary, based upon the advice of review panels representative of the higher education community, to review initial plans and approve them if minimum standards are met. Requires approval of such a plan before an institution may receive an allocation for award year 1989-1990 or 1990-1991. Sets forth procedures relating to revised plans in later academic years. Requires institutions with approved plans to submit annual progress reports. Directs the Secretary to: (1) review such reports; (2) reduce allocations as appropriate; and (3) redistribute the resulting excess allocations to institutions that have met or exceeded their objectives, on the basis of their relative need. Requires the final award notifications regarding allocations of campus-based funds (i.e. those under SEOG and work-study programs) for award year 1989-1990 to be sent to institutions by June 1, 1989. Revises provisions under the guaranteed student loan (GSL) program for Federal payments to reduce student interest costs. Reduces from 100 percent to 90 percent the portion of: (1) the unpaid principal of loans which must be insured under program agreements to qualify for interest subsidies; and (2) student loan insurance program costs which the Secretary reimburses to guaranty agencies under GSL guarantee agreements for reimbursing losses. Reduces such reimbursement to: (1) 80 percent where the default rate for a guaranty agency's loans exceeds five percent; and (2) 70 percent where such rate exceeds nine percent. Revises limitations on individual federally-insured loans and on Federal loan insurance. Extends the guarantee to: (1) 90 percent of the unpaid balance of the principal amount of the loan guaranteed including interest, for loans made to cover instruction periods beginning on or after July 1, 1988, and for consolidation loans made on or after such date; and (2) 100 percent of the unpaid balance of the principal amount of the loan guaranteed, plus interest for loans made to cover such periods. (These provisions replace provisions for reduction of the level of such insurance coverage because of certain default rates.) Requires lenders, under the guaranteed student loans (GSL), supplemental loan for students (SLC), income-contingent loan (ICL), Perkins Loan, and parent loan (PLUS) programs, to obtain a credit report from at least one national credit bureau organization on any loan applicant over 21 years of age. Allows the lender to charge the applicant for the cost of such report, up to $25. Requires any applicant with a negative credit history (but not merely nonexistent or insufficient history) to obtain a credit-worthy cosigner. Revises eligibility requirements for student aid recipients. Requires all such recipients to have earned a high school diploma or its recognized equivalent. Requires that institutional determinations of undue hardship based on special circumstances, for purposes of waiving student satisfactory progress requirements, be made according to criteria established by the Secretary. Repeals certain provisions relating to the student aid eligibility of students admitted on the basis of ability to benefit from an educational or training program. Repeals a prohibition against the Secretary's requiring institutions to verify the accuracy of data used to determine eligibility for any student assistance program under title IV of HEA. Requires the National Student Loan Data System (the System) to include such information as the Secretary may reasonably require. Allows entities (and individuals) specifically authorized by the Secretary to have access to information in the System. Subjects the access of guaranty agencies under the Part B GSL program to such limitations as the Secretary may prescribe. Allows for other uses of such information as the Secretary may authorize. Removes a prohibition against the Secretary's requiring lenders, guaranty agencies, or institutions of higher education to verify information or obtain eligibility or other information through the System before making, guaranteeing, or certifying a GSL or direct loan. Requires the use of criteria established by the Secretary in determinations: (1) by institutions that undue hardship justifies a waiver of certain eligibility requirements for Pell Grants; and (2) by financial aid administrators that a student is independent by reason of unusual circumstances, for purposes of needs analysis for Pell Grants or other student assistance programs. Requires borrowers under the GSL, SLS, ICL, or Perkins Loan programs to provide their driver's license numbers at the times of loan application and, as part of the school's exit interview, their expected address and the name and address of their expected employer after graduation. Provides that a lender or guaranty agency shall not be relieved of liability for civil penalties because of its cure of a violation or correction of a failure under the GSL program, or its notification of a person who received a substantial misrepresentation of the actual nature of the financial charges involved if the cure, correction, or notification is made after the Department of Education discovers the violation, failure, or misrepresentation. Directs the Secretary to limit, suspend, or terminate a lender from participation in the insurance agencies operated by guaranty agencies under the GSL program if the lender has substantially failed to carry out any provision of title IV, any regulation prescribed under title IV, or any application special arrangement, agreement, or limitation. Directs the Secretary to take emergency action to stop the issuance of guarantee commitments and the payment of interest benefits and special allowances to a lender if the Secretary: (1) receives reliable information that the lender is violating any title IV provisions or regulations, or any applicable special arrangement, agreement, or limitation; (2) determines that immediate action is necessary to prevent misuse of Federal funds; and (3) determines that the likelihood of loss outweighs the importance of following authorized limitation, suspension, or termination procedures. Limits such an emergency action to 30 days unless a limitation, suspension, or termination proceeding is begun before the expiration of that period. Directs the Secretary to provide the lender, upon request, an opportunity to show cause that the emergency action is unwarranted. Includes violations of or failures to carry out any applicable special arrangement, agreement, or limitation among the violations and failures for which the Secretary may prescribe regulations to limit, suspend, or terminate the title IV program eligibility of an institution and may impose civil penalties. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations for: (1) emergency actions against institutions, individuals, or private, for-profit organizations that have contracted with institutions to administer any aspect of the institution's student assistance program; and (2) the limitation, suspension, or termination of eligibility of such an individual or private, for-profit organization to enter into such a contract. Prohibits an eligible institution from measuring the length of a course of study or academic year on a credit hour basis for title IV purposes if it is licensed by the State to provide such a course measured by the State on a clock hour basis. Allows the institution to make such measurement on either basis if the State measures on both a clock hour and credit hour basis. Makes the State's assessment of the number of credit hours constituting the course of study applicable if the institution chooses to measure on a credit hour basis. Requires eligible lenders or other loan holders who acquire loans under the GSL program to notify the borrower, the guaranty agency, and the eligible institution that the borrower attended of such acquisition within 30 days of the sale or other transfer of the loan. Makes a technical amendment to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985.

Smoking Cost Recovery and Education Tax Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1988

Smoking Cost Recovery and Education Tax Act of 1988 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on cigarettes from: (1) $8 to $20.50 per thousand for small cigarettes; and (2) $16.80 to $43.05 per thousand for large cigarettes. Establishes in the Treasury the Smoking Cost Recovery and Education Trust Fund, to be available to finance educational programs (including paid advertising) concerning the hazards of cigarette smoking, with emphasis on discouraging smoking by youth. Appropriates to the Fund ten percent of the tobacco tax revenue generated by this Act's rate increase. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct an ongoing study and to report biennially to specified congressional committees on: (1) the effects of smoking on health care costs; and (2) the incidence of cigarette smoking by youth, including the relationship between cigarette tax rates and youth smoking.

Praxisorientierte Ausbildung der Bundesgrenzschutzbeamten in den Bereichen Psychologie, Pädagogik und politische Bildung (G-SIG: 11051226)

Germany · German Bundestag · 3 June 1988

Beurteilung des Inhalts des Buches "Zeitgenössische Schriftsteller als Wegbereiter für Anarchismus und Gewalt" durch das Kuratorium der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung; Ankauf und Verteiler des vom deutschen PEN-Club als "rechtsextrem argumentierendes Pamphlet" eingestuften Buches (G-SIG: 11051191)

Germany · German Bundestag · 3 June 1988

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the capability of Veterans' Administration health-care facilities to provide the most effective and appropriate services possible to veterans suffering from mental illness, especially conditions which are service-related, through the designation of centers of mental illness research, education, and clinical activities at up to five of its medical centers, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1988

Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish and operate up to five Veterans Administration health-care facilities as centers of mental illness research, education, and clinical activities, taking into account appropriate geographic distribution of such facilities. Precludes the Administrator from designating any health-care facility as a center unless the facility has (or may reasonably be anticipated to develop): (1) an arrangement with an accredited medical school and graduate school of psychology which provide education and training in psychiatry and psychology through regular rotation through such center so as to provide training in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness; (2) an arrangement under which nursing, social work, or other allied health personnel receive education and training in mental health care through regular rotation through such facility; (3) the ability to attract the participation of scientists who are capable of ingenuity and creativity in research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of mental illness and into models for furnishing care and treatment to veterans suffering from mental illness; (4) a policymaking advisory committee to advise the directors of such facility and center on policy matters pertaining to the activities of such center; and (5) the capability to conduct effectively evaluations of the activities of such center. Authorizes appropriations. Declares that activities of clinical and scientific investigation at each center shall be eligible to compete for the award of funding from funds appropriated for the VA medical and prosthetics research account and shall receive priority insofar as funds are awarded to projects for mental illness. Requires the Chief Medical Director to ensure that: (1) research activities carried out through such centers include an appropriate emphasis on the psychosocial dimension of mental illness and on models for furnishing care and treatment to veterans suffering from mental illness; and (2) useful information produced by the centers is disseminated throughout the Department of Medicine and Surgery. Requires the Administrator to submit to the House and Senate Committees on Veterans Affairs an annual report on the activities and effectiveness of the centers.

Business and Citizen School Volunteers of America Act of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1988

Business and Citizen School Volunteers of America Act of 1988 - Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to eligible partnerships to assist elementary and secondary schools in organizing, promoting, and utilizing volunteers in such schools. (Defines eligible partnership as a volunteer program development agreement between: (1) an elementary or secondary school, State educational agency (SEA), and/or local educational agency (LEA); and (2) a government agency, nonprofit organization, institution of higher education, and/or business concern.) Directs the Secretary to consult with the National School Volunteer Program, Incorporated, in establishing criteria for making such grants and in prescribing regulations under this Act. Sets forth authorized uses of funds under this Act. Sets forth grant application requirements. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Center for Leadership in School Volunteer and Partnership Programs, through grants to or contracts with an entity, such as the National School Volunteer Program, Incorporated, which is experienced in and has as its primary purpose assisting school volunteer programs. Requires the Center to: (1) serve as a resource center; (2) train volunteers; (3) conduct an annual survey of volunteer programs; (4) evaluate volunteer programs; and (5) perform any of its functions through contracts with the various types of entities included under eligible partnerships. Requires that at least 20 percent of funds under this Act in any fiscal year be used for Center activities. Sets forth priorities in the grant approval process. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1993 to carry out this Act.

Kürzung der Ausgaben für die berufliche Bildung in der mittelfristigen Finanzplanung von 1987 und für die überbetrieblichen Ausbildungsstellen im Haushaltsansatz 1988 (G-SIG: 11051208)

Germany · German Bundestag · 27 May 1988

Student Aid Integrity and Accountability Amendments of 1988

United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1988

Student Aid Integrity and Accountability Amendments of 1988 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise and add provisions relating to title IV (Student Assistance) programs. Eliminates a requirement that at least 85 percent of Pell Grant payment funds be advanced to eligible institutions before the start of each payment period. Limits Pell Grant individual eligibility to three academic years in the case of an undergraduate degree or certificate program normally requiring two years or less. Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to prescribe regulations reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of Pell Grant provisions. Requires institutional accountability plans under the allocation of funds provisions of the supplemental education opportunity grant (SEOG) program and the work-study program. Permits adjustments of an institution's allocation if it fails to meet the performance goals established in its accountability plan. Requires participating institutions to develop such plans to assess, in quantifiable terms, their success in providing an education of demonstrable value to their students. Directs the Secretary to publish and take public comment on: (1) a number of criteria from which an institution shall select those to be included in its plans; and (2) minimum standards for evaluating institutional performance. Directs the Secretary, based upon the advice of review panels representative of the higher education community, to review initial plans and approve them if minimum standards are met. Requires approval of such a plan before an institution may receive an allocation for award year 1989-1990 or 1990-1991. Sets forth procedures relating to revised plans in later academic years. Requires institutions with approved plans to submit annual progress reports. Directs the Secretary to: (1) review such reports; (2) reduce allocations as appropriate; and (3) redistribute the resulting excess allocations to institutions that have met or exceeded their objectives, on the basis of their relative need. Requires the final award notifications regarding allocations of campus-based funds (i.e. those under SEOG and work-study programs) for award year 1989-1990 to be sent to institutions by June 1, 1989. Revises provisions under the guaranteed student loan (GSL) program for Federal payments to reduce student interest costs. Reduces from 100 percent to 90 percent the portion of: (1) the unpaid principal of loans which must be insured under program agreements to qualify for interest subsidies; and (2) student loan insurance program costs which the Secretary reimburses to guaranty agencies under GSL guarantee agreements for reimbursing losses. Reduces such reimbursement to: (1) 80 percent where the default rate for a guaranty agency's loans exceeds five percent; and (2) 70 percent where such rate exceeds nine percent. Revises limitations on individual federally-insured loans and on Federal loan insurance. Extends the guarantee to: (1) 90 percent of the unpaid balance of the principal amount of the loan guaranteed including interest, for loans made to cover instruction periods beginning on or after July 1, 1988, and for consolidation loans made on or after such date; and (2) 100 percent of the unpaid balance of the principal amount of the loan guaranteed, plus interest for loans made to cover such periods. (These provisions replace provisions for reduction of the level of such insurance coverage because of certain default rates.) Requires lenders, under the guaranteed student loans (GSL), supplemental loan for students (SLC), income-contingent loan (ICL), Perkins Loan, and parent loan (PLUS) programs, to obtain a credit report from at least one national credit bureau organization on any loan applicant over 21 years of age. Allows the lender to charge the applicant for the cost of such report, up to $25. Requires any applicant with a negative credit history (but not merely nonexistent or insufficient history) to obtain a credit-worthy cosigner. Revises eligibility requirements for student aid recipients. Requires all such recipients to have earned a high school diploma or its recognized equivalent. Requires that institutional determinations of undue hardship based on special circumstances, for purposes of waiving student satisfactory progress requirements, be made according to criteria established by the Secretary. Repeals certain provisions relating to the student aid eligibility of students admitted on the basis of ability to benefit from an educational or training program. Repeals a prohibition against the Secretary's requiring institutions to verify the accuracy of data used to determine eligibility for any student assistance program under title IV of HEA. Requires the National Student Loan Data System (the System) to include such information as the Secretary may reasonably require. Allows entities (and individuals) specifically authorized by the Secretary to have access to information in the System. Subjects the access of guaranty agencies under the Part B GSL program to such limitations as the Secretary may prescribe. Allows for other uses of such information as the Secretary may authorize. Removes a prohibition against the Secretary's requiring lenders, guaranty agencies, or institutions of higher education to verify information or obtain eligibility or other information through the System before making, guaranteeing, or certifying a GSL or direct loan. Requires the use of criteria established by the Secretary in determinations: (1) by institutions that undue hardship justifies a waiver of certain eligibility requirements for Pell Grants; and (2) by financial aid administrators that a student is independent by reason of unusual circumstances, for purposes of needs analysis for Pell Grants or other student assistance programs. Requires borrowers under the GSL, SLS, ICL, or Perkins Loan programs to provide their driver's license numbers at the times of loan application and, as part of the school's exit interview, their expected address and the name and address of their expected employer after graduation. Provides that a lender or guaranty agency shall not be relieved of liability for civil penalties because of its cure of a violation or correction of a failure under the GSL program, or its notification of a person who received a substantial misrepresentation of the actual nature of the financial charges involved if the cure, correction, or notification is made after the Department of Education discovers the violation, failure, or misrepresentation. Directs the Secretary to limit, suspend, or terminate a lender from participation in the insurance agencies operated by guaranty agencies under the GSL program if the lender has substantially failed to carry out any provision of title IV, any regulation prescribed under title IV, or any application special arrangement, agreement, or limitation. Directs the Secretary to take emergency action to stop the issuance of guarantee commitments and the payment of interest benefits and special allowances to a lender if the Secretary: (1) receives reliable information that the lender is violating any title IV provisions or regulations, or any applicable special arrangement, agreement, or limitation; (2) determines that immediate action is necessary to prevent misuse of Federal funds; and (3) determines that the likelihood of loss outweighs the importance of following authorized limitation, suspension, or termination procedures. Limits such an emergency action to 30 days unless a limitation, suspension, or termination proceeding is begun before the expiration of that period. Directs the Secretary to provide the lender, upon request, an opportunity to show cause that the emergency action is unwarranted. Includes violations of or failures to carry out any applicable special arrangement, agreement, or limitation among the violations and failures for which the Secretary may prescribe regulations to limit, suspend, or terminate the title IV program eligibility of an institution and may impose civil penalties. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations for: (1) emergency actions against institutions, individuals, or private, for-profit organizations that have contracted with institutions to administer any aspect of the institution's student assistance program; and (2) the limitation, suspension, or termination of eligibility of such an individual or private, for-profit organization to enter into such a contract. Prohibits an eligible institution from measuring the length of a course of study or academic year on a credit hour basis for title IV purposes if it is licensed by the State to provide such a course measured by the State on a clock hour basis. Allows the institution to make such measurement on either basis if the State measures on both a clock hour and credit hour basis. Makes the State's assessment of the number of credit hours constituting the course of study applicable if the institution chooses to measure on a credit hour basis. Requires eligible lenders or other loan holders who acquire loans under the GSL program to notify the borrower, the guaranty agency, and the eligible institution that the borrower attended of such acquisition within 30 days of the sale or other transfer of the loan. Makes a technical amendment to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985.

A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prevent abuses in the Supplemental Loans for Students program under part B of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1988

Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to remove the exemption for Supplemental Loans for Students (SLS loans) from certain eligibility requirements under title IV (Student Assistance) of the Act. Revises such requirements to provide that SLS and Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL loan) recipients must have: (1) received a determination of eligibility or ineligibility for a Pell Grant for the relevant period of enrollment; and (2) filed an application for such a grant, if determined to be eligible. Requires, for eligibility for an SLS loan for any period of enrollment, that a student who is not a graduate or professional student must have: (1) received a determination of need for a GSL loan; and (2) applied for such a loan, if determined to have need for it. Reduces the amount of an individual's SLS loan eligibility by the amount of such individual's GSL loan eligibility (added to other financial aid). Revises the conditions of SLS eligibility of undergraduate dependent students. Requires "exceptional" (rather than "extenuating") circumstances to preclude such a student's parents from borrowing under the parent loan (PLUS loan) program. Requires appropriate documentation that such circumstances exist to be maintained in the institution's records to support such determination. Requires that SLS loans be disbursed in a specified manner to reduce student interest costs. Makes special rules for multiple disbursement also applicable to SLS loans. Makes students in teacher training programs eligible for GSL loans regardless of specified restrictions on such eligibility. Provides that, for purposes of Pell Grant need analysis and general student aid need analysis provisions, income tax payments to specified U.S. territories and possessions or to foreign governments shall be treated as Federal income taxes. Revises title III (Institutional Aid) of the Act to prohibit any historically black college or university which receives funds under part B (Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities) from receiving funds under part A (Strengthening Institutions) of such title. Adds to authorized uses of funds from grants to institutions under part B: (1) faculty development; (2) funds and administrative management, and funds for acquisition of equipment for use in strengthening funds management; and (3) joint use of facilities, such as laboratories and libraries.