Student Protection and Success Act
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Student Protection and Success Act
This bill establishes certain consequences for institutions of higher education (IHEs) that have low student loan repayment rates or high student loan balances among their students.
The bill makes an IHE ineligible for federal student financial aid programs for two fiscal years if a certain percentage of its students are not able to start repaying the principal of their loans by specified deadlines.
The Department of Education must award grants to IHEs that have a strong record of supporting low- and moderate-income students. The bill funds the grants by requiring IHEs with certain nonrepayment loan balances to make risk-sharing payments. Grants may be used to increase college access and success for the students using investments and practices such as awarding additional need-based financial aid, enhancing academic and student support services, and establishing or expanding accelerated learning opportunities.
The bill also revises the types of student service expenditures and resources information collected by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 5072: Student Protection and Success Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5072/
"S. 5072: Student Protection and Success Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5072/.
S. 5072, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-5072/.
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