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Student Training and Education Metrics Act of 2019

Introduced: September 26, 2019 Introduced by: Scott, Rick Republican · Florida See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Sep 26, 2019
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Student Training and Education Metrics Act of 2019

This bill makes institutions of higher education (IHE) responsible for a percentage of the loan balance of students who are in default, and it requires IHEs and the Department of Education (ED) to report certain metrics related to student debt and academic programs.

Specifically, the bill requires an IHE to remit to ED an annually increasing percentage of the loan balance of students who are in default, up to 10% in the tenth year. Additionally, an IHE shall forfeit its eligibility to receive any federal funds if it raises the amount of tuition and fees above the amount charged for the 2019-2020 award year.

An IHE must collect, report to ED, and make publicly available certain statistics such as the (1) graduation rate for each academic program; (2) percentage of graduates who are employed full-time or continuing their education full-time one, three, and five years after graduating; and (3) cost to graduate with a degree for each academic program.

For each IHE, ED must annually report (1) the average amount of federal student loan debt owed by a student upon graduation; and (2) the rate of loan deferment, forbearance, default, and delinquency at certain intervals following graduation.

What's happening now September 26, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2559: Student Training and Education Metrics Act of 2019. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-2559/
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