HR 3598
116th Congress
House
Education
Disability and paralysis
Disability assistance
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Income tax exclusion
State and local taxation
Student aid and college costs
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' pensions and compensation
FREED Vets Act
Introduced: June 28, 2019
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9 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 11, 2020
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 10, 2020
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Mar 10, 2020
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1575-1576)
Mar 10, 2020
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Mar 10, 2020
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3598.
Mar 10, 2020
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1575-1577)
Mar 10, 2020
Mrs. Lee (NV) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Jun 28, 2019
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Jun 28, 2019
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Federally Requiring Earned Education-debt Discharges for Vets Act or the FREED Vets Act
This bill requires the Department of Education (ED), after providing specified notice, to automatically discharge loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program for certain borrowers who are veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Specifically, ED must
- notify a veteran borrower whom the Department of Veterans Affairs has assigned a rating of total disability for a service-connected disability, or who has been determined to be unemployable due to a service-connected condition, of ED's intent to discharge the borrower's loans;
- provide the borrower with a period of 60 days to opt out of such loan discharge; and
- discharge the veteran borrower's loans if the borrower does not opt out of such loan discharge within 60 days.
What's happening now
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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