HR 2574 113th Congress House Education Employee benefits and pensions Government lending and loan guarantees Higher education Interest, dividends, interest rates Student aid and college costs

Keep Student Loans Affordable Act of 2013

Introduced: June 28, 2013 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Sep 13, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

Sep 13, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Jul 23, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

Jun 28, 2013

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.

Jun 28, 2013

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Keep Student Loans Affordable Act of 2013 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the 3.4% interest rate on Direct Stafford loans first disbursed to undergraduate students between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2013, to Direct Stafford loans first disbursed to undergraduate students between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2014.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify rules for required distributions from tax-exempt pension plans to an employee who dies before such employee's entire interest is distributed to require such interest to be distributed within five years after the death of such employee, subject to exceptions for an eligible designated beneficiary and surviving spouse of such employee. Defines "eligible designated beneficiary" to include a disabled or chronically-ill individual. Exempts from such modification a binding annuity contract in effect on the enactment date of this Act.

What's happening now September 13, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.

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