HR 3446 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

FAFSA Fairness Act of 2013

Introduced Nov 12, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Elijah E. Cummings D-MD

Fact sheet

Latest action · Nov 12, 2013 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

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.

  1. IntroducedNov 12, 2013
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

FAFSA Fairness Act of 2013 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to disclose, on the form notifying students of their expected family contribution, the special circumstances under which students may qualify as independent for purposes of the determination regarding their need and eligibility for title IV assistance.

Allows students who may qualify as independent on the basis of those special circumstances to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as independent students for purposes of the initial determination of their title IV assistance by a financial aid administrator at an institution of higher education to which they are applying.

Requires the financial aid administrators to: (1) provide those students with an initial determination regarding their title IV assistance in the same manner as, and by no later than the date that, they provide other independent students with that determination; and (2) use, in making a final determination regarding that assistance, the discretion provided to them under title IV to verify whether such students meet the special circumstances to qualify as independent students.

Cosponsors 11

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 12, 2013 to Mar 12, 2014, with 8 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-NHCarol Shea-PorterOriginalNov 12, 2013
D-NYCarolyn McCarthyOriginalNov 12, 2013
D-NYCharles B. RangelOriginalNov 12, 2013
D-FLFrederica S. WilsonOriginalNov 12, 2013
D-COJared PolisOriginalNov 12, 2013
D-MAJohn F. TierneyOriginalNov 12, 2013
D-MNKeith EllisonOriginalNov 12, 2013
D-CATony CárdenasOriginalNov 12, 2013
D-NYGregory W. MeeksNov 13, 2013
D-ORSuzanne BonamiciNov 13, 2013
D-TNSteve CohenMar 12, 2014

Actions 2

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  1. Nov 12, 2013Introduced in House
  2. Nov 12, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

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  1. Nov 12, 2013Introduced in House

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