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HR 1330 113th Congress House

Student Loan Fairness Act

Official title: To increase purchasing power, strengthen economic recovery, and restore fairness in financing higher education in the United States through student loan forgiv… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To increase purchasing power, strengthen economic recovery, and restore fairness in financing higher education in the United States through student loan forgiveness, caps on interest rates on Federal student loans, and refinancing opportunities for private borrowers, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 21, 2013 See on congress.gov
Education Administrative law and regulatory proceduresConsumer Financial Protection BureauEducation programs fundingGovernment employee pay, benefits, personnel management
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Apr 23, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Mar 21, 2013
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 21, 2013
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E356)
Mar 21, 2013
Introduced in House
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 Latest action April 23, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Student Loan Fairness Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish a 10/10 Loan Repayment Plan that allows borrowers of Federal Family Education Loans (FFELs) and Direct Loans (DLs) to limit their monthly payment on such loans to one-twelfth of 10% of the amount by which their adjusted gross income and that of their spouse (if applicable) exceeds 150% of the federal poverty level.

Establishes a 10/10 Loan Forgiveness Program that provides FFEL and DL forgiveness to borrowers who, after the date that is 10 years before the date of this Act's enactment, have made 120 monthly payments under the 10/10 Loan Repayment Plan or under another repayment plan that required them to make payments at least as large as those they would have made under the 10/10 Loan Repayment Plan.

Credits the months during which an individual is in deferment due to an economic hardship as months for which payment was made for purposes of the 10/10 Loan Forgiveness Program.

Caps the amount of loan forgiveness that the program will provide to individuals who become new borrowers after the date of this Act's enactment.

Caps the interest rate on new DLs at 3.4%.

Amends the public service employee loan forgiveness program to forgive the DLs of participants who have made 60 (currently, 120) monthly payments on such loans pursuant to specified repayment plans.

Includes primary care physicians in medically underserved areas in the public service employee loan forgiveness program.

Allows certain borrowers to consolidate their private education loans as Direct Consolidation Loans, provided the private loans were made on or before the date of this Act's enactment.

Limits such borrowers to those who: (1) were students eligible for unsubsidized Stafford loans or PLUS loans under the FFEL or DL programs for their enrollment at an institution of higher education, or would have been had they been enrolled on at least a half-time basis; (2) borrowed at least one private education loan for such enrollment; and (3) have an average adjusted gross income that does not exceed their total education debt.

Caps the interest rate on those Direct Consolidation Loans at 3.4%.

Requires borrowers to apply for such loans within one year of this Act's enactment.

Amends the Truth in Lending Act to direct the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) to issue regulations that require private education lenders to sell private education loans to the Secretary of Education for consolidation as Direct Consolidation Loans.

Sets forth the data to be used in determining the price paid for such loans.

Amends title IV of the HEA to direct the Secretary of Education to pay the interest that accrues on unsubsidized FFELs and DLs that are deferred due to a student borrower's lack of full-time employment.

Requires the Secretary to pay the interest that accrues on Federal Consolidation Loans that are in deferment due to a borrower's lack of full-time employment, provided the application for such a loan is received on or after the date of this Act's enactment.

Directs the Secretary to pay the interest that accrues on FFELs and DLs that are subject to income-based repayment provisions and are in deferment due to a borrower's lack of full-time employment.

Limits these interest-free deferment periods to those occurring on or after the date of this Act's enactment and covering no more than three years of full-time unemployment.

Excludes from a borrower's taxable income the principal and interest on FFELs and DLs that is forgiven pursuant to income-based repayment plans.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 37
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Thompson, Mike
California · Apr 28, 2014
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DeGette, Diana
Colorado · Jun 25, 2013
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Kelly, Robin L.
Illinois · Apr 30, 2013
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Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Apr 26, 2013
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Beatty, Joyce
Ohio · Apr 23, 2013
D
Vargas, Juan
California · Apr 15, 2013
Lujan Grisham, Michelle
· Apr 9, 2013
D
Lynch, Stephen F.
Massachusetts · Apr 9, 2013
D
Castor, Kathy
Florida · Mar 25, 2013
D
Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Mar 25, 2013
D
Meeks, Gregory W.
New York · Mar 25, 2013
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Takano, Mark
California · Mar 25, 2013
D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Mar 21, 2013
BROWN, CORRINE
· Mar 21, 2013
D
Brownley, Julia
California · Mar 21, 2013
D
Clarke, Yvette D.
New York · Mar 21, 2013
CLAY, WM.
· Mar 21, 2013
D
Cleaver, Emanuel
Missouri · Mar 21, 2013
D
Clyburn, James E.
South Carolina · Mar 21, 2013
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Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Mar 21, 2013
Edwards, Donna
· Mar 21, 2013
Ellison, Keith
· Mar 21, 2013
Fudge, Marcia
· Mar 21, 2013
D
Green, Al
Texas · Mar 21, 2013
GREEN, GENE
· Mar 21, 2013
HINOJOSA, RUBEN
· Mar 21, 2013
D
Jeffries, Hakeem S.
New York · Mar 21, 2013
D
Johnson, Henry C. "Hank"
Georgia · Mar 21, 2013
LEWIS, JOHN
· Mar 21, 2013
D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · Mar 21, 2013
D
Moore, Gwen
Wisconsin · Mar 21, 2013
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Mar 21, 2013
Richmond, Cedric
· Mar 21, 2013
D
Schiff, Adam B.
California · Mar 21, 2013
D
Scott, Robert C. "Bobby"
Virginia · Mar 21, 2013
WATT, MELVIN
· Mar 21, 2013
D
Wilson, Frederica S.
Florida · Mar 21, 2013
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1330: Student Loan Fairness Act. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-1330/
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"H.R. 1330: Student Loan Fairness Act." 113th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-1330/.
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H.R. 1330, 113th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-1330/.
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