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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 777 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of |
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| 6 | 6 | | Education to send to certain students who submit a Free Application |
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| 7 | 7 | | for Federal Student Aid information regarding potential eligibility for |
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| 8 | 8 | | assistance under the supplemental nutrition assistance program under |
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| 9 | 9 | | the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, and for other purposes. |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY28, 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Mrs. H |
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| 13 | 13 | | AYES(for herself, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. DAVISof Illinois, Ms. TITUS, Ms. |
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| 15 | 15 | | ORTON, Mr. JOHNSONof Georgia, Ms. CROCKETT, Mr. GARCI´Aof Illi- |
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| 16 | 16 | | nois, Mr. M |
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| 17 | 17 | | CGOVERN, Mr. JACKSONof Illinois, Ms. CHU, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, |
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| 18 | 18 | | Ms. S |
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| 19 | 19 | | CANLON, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. |
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| 20 | 20 | | K |
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| 21 | 21 | | HANNA, Mr. BISHOP, Ms. BROWN, Ms. PLASKETT, and Mrs. RAMIREZ) |
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| 22 | 22 | | introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on |
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| 23 | 23 | | Education and Workforce |
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| 24 | 24 | | A BILL |
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| 25 | 25 | | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require |
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| 26 | 26 | | the Secretary of Education to send to certain students |
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| 27 | 27 | | who submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid |
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| 28 | 28 | | information regarding potential eligibility for assistance |
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| 29 | 29 | | under the supplemental nutrition assistance program |
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| 30 | 30 | | under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, and for |
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| 31 | 31 | | other purposes. |
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| 32 | 32 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 36 | 36 | | •HR 777 IH |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 |
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| 38 | 38 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Closing the College 2 |
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| 39 | 39 | | Hunger Gap Act’’. 3 |
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| 40 | 40 | | SEC. 2. INFORMATION ON SNAP ELIGIBILITY. 4 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (a) I |
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| 42 | 42 | | NGENERAL.—Section 483 of the Higher Edu-5 |
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| 43 | 43 | | cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1090) is amended by add-6 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ing at the end the following: 7 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ‘‘(e) I |
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| 46 | 46 | | NFORMATION ONSNAP ELIGIBILITY.— 8 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 48 | 48 | | N GENERAL.—For each year for which a 9 |
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| 49 | 49 | | student described in paragraph (2) submits a form 10 |
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| 50 | 50 | | described in subsection (a), the Secretary shall send 11 |
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| 51 | 51 | | to such student information regarding potential eli-12 |
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| 52 | 52 | | gibility for assistance under, and application process 13 |
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| 53 | 53 | | for, the supplemental nutrition assistance program 14 |
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| 54 | 54 | | established under the Food and Nutrition Act of 15 |
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| 55 | 55 | | 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) in written and elec-16 |
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| 56 | 56 | | tronic form. Both the written and electronic commu-17 |
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| 57 | 57 | | nication shall include contact information for the 18 |
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| 58 | 58 | | State agency responsible for administering the sup-19 |
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| 59 | 59 | | plemental nutrition assistance program in the State 20 |
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| 60 | 60 | | in which the student resides. 21 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(2) S |
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| 62 | 62 | | TUDENTS.—A student is described in this 22 |
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| 63 | 63 | | paragraph if the student has a negative or zero stu-23 |
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| 64 | 64 | | dent aid index for the year.’’. 24 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (b) C |
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| 66 | 66 | | ONSULTATION.—The Secretary of Education 25 |
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| 67 | 67 | | shall consult with the Secretary of Agriculture, and the 26 |
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| 70 | 70 | | •HR 777 IH |
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| 71 | 71 | | head of any other applicable Federal or State agency, in 1 |
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| 72 | 72 | | designing the written and electronic communication re-2 |
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| 73 | 73 | | garding potential eligibility for assistance under, and ap-3 |
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| 74 | 74 | | plication process for, the supplemental nutrition assistance 4 |
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| 75 | 75 | | program established under the Food and Nutrition Act of 5 |
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| 76 | 76 | | 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) as described in section 6 |
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| 77 | 77 | | 483(e) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7 |
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| 78 | 78 | | 1090(e)). 8 |
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| 79 | 79 | | SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 9 |
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| 80 | 80 | | This Act and the amendment made by this Act shall 10 |
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| 81 | 81 | | take effect 120 days after the date of enactment of this 11 |
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| 82 | 82 | | Act. 12 |
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