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H.R. 5126 117th Congress House

Combating Predatory Lending in Higher Education Act of 2021

Official title: To require that certain loans made to parents on behalf of a dependent student and to graduate students are included in the definition of cohort default rate u… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To require that certain loans made to parents on behalf of a dependent student and to graduate students are included in the definition of cohort default rate under the Higher Education Act of 1965, to require the Secretary of Education to report default rates for such loans, and for other purposes.

Introduced: August 27, 2021 Introduced by: Beth Van Duyne Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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Combating Predatory Lending in Higher Education Act of 2021

This bill includes Direct PLUS Loans that are made to graduate students and parents on behalf of dependent students in an institution of higher education's (IHE's) cohort default rate. This rate is the percentage of an IHE's borrowers who enter repayment and default on certain student loans.

Further, the Department of Education must include this information in its annual report on cohort default rates.

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Crenshaw, Dan
Texas · Nov 18, 2021
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5126: Combating Predatory Lending in Higher Education Act of 2021. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5126/
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"H.R. 5126: Combating Predatory Lending in Higher Education Act of 2021." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5126/.
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H.R. 5126, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-5126/.
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