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H.R. 1229 116th Congress House

Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2019

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, or the individual works in a school of the defense dependents' education system under the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 due to such a relocation, and for other purposes.

Introduced: February 25, 2019 See on congress.gov
Education Congressional oversightEducation of the disadvantagedElementary and secondary educationHigher education
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Military personnel and dependentsStudent aid and college costsTeaching, teachers, curricula
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Feb 14, 2019
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 Latest action February 14, 2019

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2019

This bill modifies the qualifying service requirement of the teacher loan forgiveness program for certain military spouses who have student federal loans.

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 nonconsecutive service to be eligible for loan forgiveness if the teacher's spouse was relocated by the military.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 9
All 9 Democratic 5 Republican 2
Rice, Kathleen
· Dec 2, 2020
 D
Gottheimer, Josh
New Jersey · Nov 8, 2019
Stivers, Steve
· Aug 23, 2019
 D
Neguse, Joe
Colorado · Jun 20, 2019
 D
Garamendi, John
California · Apr 8, 2019
 D
Carson, André
Indiana · Feb 25, 2019
 R
Kelly, Trent
Mississippi · Feb 14, 2019
 D
Sewell, Terri A.
Alabama · Feb 14, 2019
 R
Stefanik, Elise M.
New York · Feb 14, 2019
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1229: Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-1229/
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"H.R. 1229: Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2019." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-1229/.
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H.R. 1229, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-1229/.
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[H.R. 1229: Preserving Teacher Loan Forgiveness for Military Spouses Act of 2019](https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-1229/)
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