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118THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 460
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide additional amounts
of loan forgiveness to teachers of English learners and teachers of bilin-
gual and dual language immersion students, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY24, 2023
Mr. E
SPAILLAT(for himself, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. CARSON, Ms. CROCKETT,
Mrs. N
APOLITANO, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. NORTON, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr.
E
VANS, and Mr. GARCI´Aof Illinois) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce
A BILL
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide
additional amounts of loan forgiveness to teachers of
English learners and teachers of bilingual and dual lan-
guage immersion students, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Supporting Providers 4
of English Language Learning Act’’ or the ‘‘SPELL Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. TEACHERS OF ENGLISH LEARNERS, BILINGUAL, 1
AND DUAL LANGAGE STUDENTS. 2
(a) L
OANFORGIVENESS FOR TEACHERS.—Section 3
428J(c)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 4
U.S.C. 1078–10(c)(3)) is amended— 5
(1) in the paragraph heading by striking 6
‘‘M
ATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, OR SPECIAL EDUCATION ’’ 7
and inserting ‘‘M
ATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, SPECIAL 8
EDUCATION, OR ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION ’’; 9
(2) in subparagraph (A)(ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ 10
at the end; 11
(3) in subparagraph (B)(iii) by striking the pe-12
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 13
(4) by adding at the end the following: 14
‘‘(C) an elementary school or secondary 15
school teacher— 16
‘‘(i) who meets the requirements of 17
subsection (b); 18
‘‘(ii) whose qualifying employment for 19
purposes of such subsection is— 20
‘‘(I) as a teacher of English 21
learners (as that term is defined in 22
section 8101 of the Elementary and 23
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 24
U.S.C. 7801)) whose primary respon-25
sibility is to teach such learners; or 26
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‘‘(II) as a bilingual or dual lan-1
guage immersion teacher; and 2
‘‘(iii) who, as certified by the chief ad-3
ministrative officer of the public or non-4
profit private elementary school or sec-5
ondary school in which the borrower is em-6
ployed, or, in the case of a teacher who is 7
employed by an educational service agency, 8
as certified by the chief administrative offi-9
cer of such agency— 10
‘‘(I) is teaching English learners 11
or bilingual or dual language immer-12
sion students who correspond with the 13
borrower’s training; and 14
‘‘(II) has demonstrated knowl-15
edge and teaching skills in the content 16
areas of the elementary school or sec-17
ondary school curriculum that the 18
borrower is teaching.’’. 19
(b) L
OANCANCELLATION FOR TEACHERS.—Section 20
460(c)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 21
1087j(c)(3)) is amended— 22
(1) in the paragraph heading by striking 23
‘‘M
ATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, OR SPECIAL EDUCATION ’’ 24
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and inserting ‘‘MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, SPECIAL 1
EDUCATION, OR ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION ’’; 2
(2) in subparagraph (A)(ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ 3
at the end; 4
(3) in subparagraph (B)(iii) by striking the pe-5
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 6
(4) by adding at the end the following: 7
‘‘(C) an elementary school or secondary 8
school teacher— 9
‘‘(i) who meets the requirements of 10
subsection (b); 11
‘‘(ii) whose qualifying employment for 12
purposes of such subsection is— 13
‘‘(I) as a teacher of English 14
learners (as that term is defined in 15
section 8101 of the Elementary and 16
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 17
U.S.C. 7801)) whose primary respon-18
sibility is to teach such learners; or 19
‘‘(II) as a bilingual or dual lan-20
guage immersion teacher; and 21
‘‘(iii) who, as certified by the chief ad-22
ministrative officer of the public or non-23
profit private elementary school or sec-24
ondary school in which the borrower is em-25
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ployed, or, in the case of a teacher who is 1
employed by an educational service agency, 2
as certified by the chief administrative offi-3
cer of such agency— 4
‘‘(I) is teaching English learners 5
or bilingual or dual language immer-6
sion students who correspond with the 7
borrower’s training; and 8
‘‘(II) has demonstrated knowl-9
edge and teaching skills in the content 10
areas of the elementary school or sec-11
ondary school curriculum that the 12
borrower is teaching.’’. 13
SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY. 14
The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect 15
on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply 16
with respect to individuals who are eligible to receive 17
teacher loan forgiveness under section 428J of the Higher 18
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1078–10) or teacher 19
loan cancellation under section 460 of such Act (20 U.S.C. 20
1087j) after such date. 21
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