HR 242 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

All-Year ACCESS Act

Introduced Jan 9, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Loretta Sanchez D-CA

Latest action · Apr 29, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Progress

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IntroducedJan 9, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Affordability for Constant and Continual Education to Enhance Student Success Act or the All-Year ACCESS Act

Directs the Secretary of Education to award an additional Pell Grant to an eligible student who: (1) has received a Pell Grant for an award year, and (2) is enrolled in a program of study for one or more additional payment periods during the same award year that are not otherwise covered by the Pell Grant.

Requires such a student to be enrolled on at least a half-time basis for a period of more than one academic year, or more than the equivalent of two semesters, during a single award year.

Limits the total amount of the Pell Grants awarded to such student for the award year to 150% of the maximum Pell Grant for such award year.

Cosponsors 78

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 9, 2015 to May 13, 2016; 41 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-WA	Adam Smith	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-FL	Alan Grayson	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-NJ	Albio Sires	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-FL	Corrine Brown	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-IL	Danny K. Davis	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-RI	David N. Cicilline	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-GA	David Scott	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-TX	Filemon Vela	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-TX	Gene Green	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-TX	Joaquin Castro	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-MD	John K. Delaney	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-CA	Juan Vargas	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-CA	Julia Brownley	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-FL	Kathy Castor	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke	Original	Jan 9, 2015
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Jan 13, 2015
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Jan 13, 2015
D-CA	Jared Huffman		Jan 13, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan		Jan 13, 2015
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Jan 13, 2015
D-CA	Norma J. Torres		Jan 13, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell		Jan 20, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Jan 20, 2015
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Jan 20, 2015
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Jan 20, 2015
D-CA	Pete Aguilar		Jan 20, 2015
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		Jan 20, 2015
D-AZ	Ann Kirkpatrick		Jan 27, 2015
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Jan 27, 2015
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Jan 27, 2015
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Jan 27, 2015
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jan 27, 2015
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Jan 27, 2015
D-NJ	Donald Norcross		Mar 4, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Mar 4, 2015
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Mar 4, 2015
D-CA	Scott H. Peters		Mar 4, 2015
D-CA	Judy Chu		Mar 17, 2015
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier		Mar 17, 2015
D-CA	Ami Bera		Apr 14, 2015
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Apr 14, 2015
D-CA	Lois Capps		Apr 14, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano		Apr 28, 2015
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Sep 17, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Sep 17, 2015
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Oct 23, 2015
D-CA	Janice Hahn		Oct 23, 2015
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster		Nov 4, 2015
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Mar 15, 2016
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.		Mar 15, 2016
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Mar 15, 2016
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		May 13, 2016

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Jan 9, 2015
	Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee	Referred Apr 29, 2015

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 29, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Jan 9, 2015Introduced in House
Jan 9, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Debate and remarks H6799	Loretta Sanchez D-CA	Oct 6, 2015

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 4, January 9, 2015, page H189.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 4386	Pathways to an Affordable Education Act	Related bill	Mar 23, 2016

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To restore access to year-round Federal Pell Grants.
Short Titles as Introduced: All-Year ACCESS Act; Affordability for Constant and Continual Education to Enhance Student Success Act

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 9, 2015Introduced in House

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