FREED Vets Act

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Bill Number

HR 3598

Introduced

Jun 28, 2019

Latest Action

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Topics

Disability and paralysis Disability assistance Education Government information and archives Government lending and loan guarantees Higher education Income tax exclusion State and local taxation Student aid and college costs Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Veterans' pensions and compensation

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Summary

Federally Requiring Earned Education-debt Discharges for Vets Act or the FREED Vets Act

This bill requires the Department of Education (ED), after providing specified notice, to automatically discharge loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program for certain borrowers who are veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Specifically, ED must

notify a veteran borrower whom the Department of Veterans Affairs has assigned a rating of total disability for a service-connected disability, or who has been determined to be unemployable due to a service-connected condition, of ED's intent to discharge the borrower's loans;
provide the borrower with a period of 60 days to opt out of such loan discharge; and
discharge the veteran borrower's loans if the borrower does not opt out of such loan discharge within 60 days.

Actions

Mar 11, 2020

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 10, 2020

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Mar 10, 2020

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1575-1576)
Mar 10, 2020

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Mar 10, 2020

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3598.
Mar 10, 2020

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1575-1577)
Mar 10, 2020

Mrs. Lee (NV) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Jun 28, 2019

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Jun 28, 2019

Introduced in House

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