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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6074
January Session, 2025
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Referred to Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION AND
EMPLOYMENT ADVANCEMENT
Introduced by:
(HED)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE STUDENT LOAN REIMBURSEMENT
PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 10a-19m of the general statutes is 1
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from 2
passage): 3
(c) (1) The Commissioner of Higher Education shall award grants to 4
persons approved to participate in the student loan reimbursement 5
program on a first-come, first-served basis, provided such person meets 6
the requirements of this subsection. 7
(2) Each participant in the program shall volunteer for a nonprofit 8
organization that is registered with the Department of Consumer 9
Protection or a municipal government in the state for not less than fifty 10
unpaid hours for each year of participation in the student loan 11
reimbursement program. For purposes of this section, "volunteer hours" 12
shall include, but need not be limited to, service on the board of directors 13
for a nonprofit organization, [and] military service and volunteering for 14
a religious organization or as a firefighter or emergency medical services 15
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personnel, as defined in section 19a-175. A participant may combine the 16
volunteer hours for one or more organizations to fulfill the requirement 17
of this subdivision. 18
(3) Each participant in the program shall annually submit to the 19
Office of Higher Education, in the manner prescribed by the 20
commissioner, a (A) statement from a student loan servicer that includes 21
the amounts for the outstanding loan balance for such student loan and 22
the total of the year-to-date payments made on such student loan, and 23
(B) form documenting the number of volunteer hours completed by 24
such participant that is (i) signed by such participant's supervisor or 25
other employee of the nonprofit organization or municipal government 26
for which such participant volunteered, or, for military service, such 27
participant's commanding officer, and (ii) notarized. 28
(4) The Office of Higher Education shall reimburse each program 29
participant who meets the requirements of this section for student loan 30
payments an amount of not more than five thousand dollars, annually, 31
provided no person shall participate in the student loan reimbursement 32
program for more than four years or receive more than twenty thousand 33
dollars in aggregate reimbursement for student loan payments. 34
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage 10a-19m(c)
Statement of Purpose:
To specify that the volunteer service requirement for the student loan
reimbursement program includes volunteering for one or more
nonprofit organizations or religious organizations or volunteering as a
firefighter or emergency medical personnel.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]
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Co-Sponsors: REP. PARIS, 145th Dist.
H.B. 6074