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HR 209 111th Congress House Education Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Hearing, speech, and vision care Higher education Language arts Student aid and college costs Teaching, teachers, curricula

Helping Our Students Communicate Act of 2009

Introduced: January 6, 2009 Introduced by: Wilson, Joe Republican · South Carolina See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
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Became law
Mar 16, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
Jan 6, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Jan 6, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Helping Our Students Communicate Act of 2009 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education to assume or cancel loans made under the Federal Family Education Loan or the Direct Loan programs to individuals who have been employed for five consecutive complete school years as full-time speech-language pathologists: (1) principally at elementary and secondary schools whose enrollment of disadvantaged students exceeds 30%; and (2) have at least a graduate degree in speech-language pathology, or communication sciences and disorders.

Caps loan forgiveness at $17,500.

Limits the benefits of this Act to new borrowers on or after the date that is 90 days after the date of this Act's enactment.

What's happening now March 16, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
D
Meeks, Gregory W.
New York · Mar 19, 2009
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Mar 19, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 209: Helping Our Students Communicate Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-209/
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"H.R. 209: Helping Our Students Communicate Act of 2009." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-209/.
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H.R. 209, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-209/.
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