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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1635 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the period of |
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| 6 | 6 | | eligibility for Federal Pell Grants, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY26, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | TEVENS(for herself and Mr. GOMEZ) introduced the following bill; which |
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| 11 | 11 | | was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase |
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| 14 | 14 | | the period of eligibility for Federal Pell Grants, and |
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| 15 | 15 | | for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pell to Grad Act’’. 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEC. 2. PERIOD OF ELIGIBILITY FOR GRANTS. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Section 401 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | U.S.C. 1070a) is amended— 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (1) in subsection (b)(8)(A), by inserting ‘‘or as 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | a postbaccalaureate student in accordance with sub-9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | section (d)(1),’’ after ‘‘as an undergraduate,’’; 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (2) in subsection (d)— 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (A) by amending paragraph (1) to read as 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | follows: 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ‘‘(1) The period during which a student may re-4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ceive Federal Pell Grants shall be the period re-5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | quired for the completion of the first undergraduate 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | baccalaureate course of study being pursued by that 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | student at the institution at which the student is in 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | attendance except that— 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘(A) any period during which the student 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | is enrolled in a noncredit or remedial course of 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | study, as described in paragraph (2), shall not 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | be counted for the purpose of this paragraph; 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | and 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ‘‘(B) the period during which a student 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | may receive Federal Pell Grants shall also in-16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | clude the period required for the completion of 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | the first postbaccalaureate course of study at 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | an eligible institution that is an institution of 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | higher education as defined in section 101, in 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | a case in which— 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ‘‘(i) the student received a Federal 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | Pell Grant during the period required for 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | the completion of the student’s first under-24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | graduate baccalaureate course of study for 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | at least 1 but fewer than 16 semesters, or 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | the equivalent of at least 1 but fewer than 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | 16 semesters, as determined under para-3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | graph (5); 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(ii) the student would otherwise be 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | eligible for a Federal Pell Grant, but for 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | the completion of such baccalaureate 7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | course of study; and 8 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(iii) the period during which the stu-9 |
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| 66 | 66 | | dent receives Federal Pell Grants does not 10 |
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| 67 | 67 | | exceed the student’s duration limits under 11 |
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| 68 | 68 | | paragraph (5).’’; and 12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (B) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking ‘‘12’’ 13 |
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| 70 | 70 | | each place it appears and inserting ‘‘16’’. 14 |
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