College Cost Reduction and Access Act Technical Amendments of 2007
Latest action · Nov 14, 2007 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedNov 13, 2007
- Passed HouseNov 13, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
College Cost Reduction and Access Act Technical Amendments of 2007 - Makes technical changes to amendments the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (the Act) made to the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA).
Ensures that mandatory Pell grant funding made available for any fiscal year by such Act remains available for the succeeding fiscal year (thus, for the full Pell grant award year).
Specifies the untaxed income and benefits which the Act excluded from the list of untaxed income and benefits considered in federal student need analyses (thereby, specifically excluding them from such analyses).
Clarifies that students who were orphans, wards of the court, or in foster care when they were 13 or older are independent for federal student aid purposes.
Provides that, for married borrowers who file separate tax returns, income-based loan repayments under the HEA shall be determined solely on the basis of their individual student loan debt and adjusted gross income.
Ensures that National Guard members who serve full-time are eligible for the student loan deferment the Act provides to other military personnel for 13 months after the conclusion of active duty service.
Moves the Act's funding program for minority-serving institutions from title IV (Student Assistance) to title III (Institutional Aid) of the HEA.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 9
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 14, 2007Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Nov 13, 2007Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13819-13820)
- Nov 13, 2007DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4153.
- Nov 13, 2007Introduced in House
- Nov 13, 2007Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2371 | A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make technical corrections. | Related bill | Dec 21, 2007 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- Aid to dependent children
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Black colleges
- Cash welfare block grants
- Collection of accounts
- Earned income tax credit
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Energy
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Foster home care
- Government Operations and Politics
- Guardian and ward
- Higher education
- Income tax
- Married people
- Minority education
- National Guard
- Old age, survivors and disability insurance
- Orphans
- Scholarships
- Social Welfare
- Student loan funds
- Tax credits
- Tax returns
- Taxation
- Taxation of foreign income
- Veterans' education
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 13, 2007Considered and Passed House
- Nov 13, 2007Engrossed in House
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