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HR 3684 114th Congress House

Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2015

Official title: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide that an individual may remain eligible to participate in the teacher loan forgiveness program under title … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide that an individual may remain eligible to participate in the teacher loan forgiveness program under title IV of such Act if the individual's period of consecutive years of employment as a full-time teacher is interrupted because the individual is the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces who is relocated during the school year pursuant to military orders for a permanent change of duty station, and for other purposes.

Introduced: June 3, 2016 See on congress.gov
Education Education of the disadvantagedEducation programs fundingElementary and secondary educationHigher education
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Military personnel and dependentsStudent aid and college costsTeaching, teachers, curricula
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Mar 23, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Oct 6, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Oct 6, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Latest action March 23, 2016

Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2015

This bill amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to modify the qualifying service requirement of the teacher loan forgiveness program for certain military spouses.

Under current law, an otherwise qualified full-time teacher must complete five consecutive years of service to be eligible for the teacher loan forgiveness program. This bill permits a teacher who completes five full-time years of non-consecutive service to be eligible for loan forgiveness if the teacher was a qualified military spouse during any break in teaching service.

A qualified military spouse is an individual who: (1) is a highly-qualified teacher at a high-need school, (2) is the spouse of a servicemember, (3) experienced a break in teaching service to relocate with servicemember spouse pursuant to military orders, and (4) resumed teaching the next academic year.

The Department of Education must report to Congress on the number of individuals impacted by this modification.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 15
All 15 Democratic 11 Republican 1
D
Moulton, Seth
Massachusetts · Jun 22, 2016
 D
Keating, William R.
Massachusetts · Jun 14, 2016
 D
Gallego, Ruben
Arizona · Jun 3, 2016
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Jun 3, 2016
 D
Garamendi, John
California · May 19, 2016
 D
DeSaulnier, Mark
California · Mar 23, 2016
 R
Stefanik, Elise M.
New York · Mar 14, 2016
 D
Takano, Mark
California · Feb 12, 2016
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Feb 2, 2016
Bordallo, Madeleine
· Dec 17, 2015
MacArthur, Thomas
· Nov 16, 2015
 D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Nov 3, 2015
Russell, Steve
· Oct 6, 2015
 D
Scott, Robert C. "Bobby"
Virginia · Oct 6, 2015
 D
Sewell, Terri A.
Alabama · Oct 6, 2015
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3684: Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-3684/
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"H.R. 3684: Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-3684/.
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H.R. 3684, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-3684/.
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