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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 937 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To establish that an individual who is convicted of any offense under any |
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| 6 | 6 | | Federal or State law related to the individual’s conduct at and during |
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| 7 | 7 | | the course of a protest that occurs at an institution of higher education |
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| 8 | 8 | | shall be ineligible to receive a Federal student loan or for forgiveness, |
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| 9 | 9 | | cancellation, waiver, or modification of certain Federal student loans. |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 11 | 11 | | MARCH11 (legislative day, MARCH10), 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Mr. C |
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| 13 | 13 | | OTTONintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 14 | 14 | | to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To establish that an individual who is convicted of any of- |
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| 17 | 17 | | fense under any Federal or State law related to the |
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| 18 | 18 | | individual’s conduct at and during the course of a protest |
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| 19 | 19 | | that occurs at an institution of higher education shall |
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| 20 | 20 | | be ineligible to receive a Federal student loan or for |
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| 21 | 21 | | forgiveness, cancellation, waiver, or modification of cer- |
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| 22 | 22 | | tain Federal student loans. |
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| 23 | 23 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Student Loans for 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Campus Criminals Act’’. 5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | •S 937 IS |
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| 31 | 31 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS ON RECEIPT OF FEDERAL STUDENT 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | LOANS AND LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR CER-2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | TAIN INDIVIDUALS. 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (a) P |
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| 35 | 35 | | ROHIBITIONS.— 4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (1) L |
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| 37 | 37 | | OAN FORGIVENESS.—Notwithstanding any 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | other provision of law, an individual described in 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | paragraph (3) shall not be eligible to have any cov-7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ered loan, or a portion of such loan, forgiven, can-8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | celled, waived, or modified under the Higher Edu-9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) or 10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | under any other Executive Order or action of the 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Department of Education. 12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (2) L |
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| 46 | 46 | | OAN RECEIPT.—Notwithstanding any 13 |
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| 47 | 47 | | other provision of law, an individual described in 14 |
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| 48 | 48 | | paragraph (3) shall not be eligible to receive a loan 15 |
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| 49 | 49 | | made under part D of title IV of the Higher Edu-16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087a et seq.). 17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (3) A |
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| 52 | 52 | | FFECTED INDIVIDUAL.—An individual de-18 |
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| 53 | 53 | | scribed in this paragraph is an individual who is 19 |
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| 54 | 54 | | convicted of any offense under any Federal or State 20 |
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| 55 | 55 | | law related to the individual’s conduct at and during 21 |
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| 56 | 56 | | the course of a protest that occurs at an institution 22 |
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| 57 | 57 | | of higher education. 23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (b) D |
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| 59 | 59 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 24 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (1) C |
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| 61 | 61 | | OVERED LOAN.—The term ‘‘covered loan’’ 25 |
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| 62 | 62 | | means— 26 |
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| 65 | 65 | | •S 937 IS |
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| 66 | 66 | | (A) a loan made, insured, or guaranteed 1 |
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| 67 | 67 | | under part B, D, or E of title IV of the Higher 2 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1071 et seq.; 3 |
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| 69 | 69 | | 1087a et seq.; 1087aa et seq.) before, on, or 4 |
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| 70 | 70 | | after the date of enactment of this Act; or 5 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (B) a loan under the Health Education As-6 |
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| 72 | 72 | | sistance Loan Program under title VII of the 7 |
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| 73 | 73 | | Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 292 et 8 |
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| 74 | 74 | | seq.) made before, on, or after the date of en-9 |
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| 75 | 75 | | actment of this Act. 10 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (2) I |
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| 77 | 77 | | NSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION .—The 11 |
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| 78 | 78 | | term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 12 |
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| 79 | 79 | | meaning given that term in section 102 of the High-13 |
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| 80 | 80 | | er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002). 14 |
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