S 1203
116th Congress
Senate
Education
Family services
First responders and emergency personnel
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Health personnel
Higher education
Law enforcement officers
Lawyers and legal services
Libraries and archives
Military personnel and dependents
Nursing
Preschool education
Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
Student aid and college costs
Teaching, teachers, curricula
What You Can Do For Your Country Act
Introduced: April 11, 2019
Introduced by:
Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
Democratic
· New York
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Became law
Apr 11, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Apr 11, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
What You Can Do For Your Country Act
This bill revises the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, including by
- allowing borrowers with loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program to be eligible for the PSLF program,
- allowing borrowers to receive loan forgiveness on half of their total loans after satisfying 60 qualifying payment obligations,
- revising provisions related to loan consolidation,
- revising the types of payments that count toward qualifying payment obligations,
- defining full-time employment as 30 hours per week,
- requiring the Department of Education (ED) to provide certain notices to borrowers,
- revising the process for certification of employment,
- requiring ED to establish a database of qualifying employers,
- providing a process for borrowers to satisfy past monthly payment obligations,
- requiring lenders to provide to ED necessary borrower repayment history information, and
- requiring ED to establish a dispute resolution process.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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