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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 937
To establish that an individual who is convicted of any offense under any
Federal or State law related to the individual’s conduct at and during
the course of a protest that occurs at an institution of higher education
shall be ineligible to receive a Federal student loan or for forgiveness,
cancellation, waiver, or modification of certain Federal student loans.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH11 (legislative day, MARCH10), 2025
Mr. C
OTTONintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To establish that an individual who is convicted of any of-
fense under any Federal or State law related to the
individual’s conduct at and during the course of a protest
that occurs at an institution of higher education shall
be ineligible to receive a Federal student loan or for
forgiveness, cancellation, waiver, or modification of cer-
tain Federal student loans.
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 ‘‘No Student Loans for 4
Campus Criminals Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS ON RECEIPT OF FEDERAL STUDENT 1
LOANS AND LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR CER-2
TAIN INDIVIDUALS. 3
(a) P
ROHIBITIONS.— 4
(1) L
OAN FORGIVENESS.—Notwithstanding any 5
other provision of law, an individual described in 6
paragraph (3) shall not be eligible to have any cov-7
ered loan, or a portion of such loan, forgiven, can-8
celled, waived, or modified under the Higher Edu-9
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) or 10
under any other Executive Order or action of the 11
Department of Education. 12
(2) L
OAN RECEIPT.—Notwithstanding any 13
other provision of law, an individual described in 14
paragraph (3) shall not be eligible to receive a loan 15
made under part D of title IV of the Higher Edu-16
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087a et seq.). 17
(3) A
FFECTED INDIVIDUAL.—An individual de-18
scribed in this paragraph is an individual who is 19
convicted of any offense under any Federal or State 20
law related to the individual’s conduct at and during 21
the course of a protest that occurs at an institution 22
of higher education. 23
(b) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 24
(1) C
OVERED LOAN.—The term ‘‘covered loan’’ 25
means— 26
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(A) a loan made, insured, or guaranteed 1
under part B, D, or E of title IV of the Higher 2
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1071 et seq.; 3
1087a et seq.; 1087aa et seq.) before, on, or 4
after the date of enactment of this Act; or 5
(B) a loan under the Health Education As-6
sistance Loan Program under title VII of the 7
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 292 et 8
seq.) made before, on, or after the date of en-9
actment of this Act. 10
(2) I
NSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION .—The 11
term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 12
meaning given that term in section 102 of the High-13
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002). 14
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