S. 937 119th Congress Senate

No Student Loans for Campus Criminals Act

Official title: A bill to establish that an individual who is convicted of any offense under any Federal or State law related to the individual's conduct at and during the cou… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to establish that an individual who is convicted of any offense under any Federal or State law related to the individual's conduct at and during the course of a protest that occurs at an institution of higher education shall be ineligible to receive a Federal student loan or for forgiveness, cancellation, waiver, or modification of certain Federal student loans.

Introduced: March 11, 2025 Introduced by: Tom Cotton Republican · Arkansas See on congress.gov

Education First Amendment rightsGovernment lending and loan guaranteesHigher educationProtest and dissentStudent aid and college costs

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Mar 11, 2025

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

Mar 11, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Votes taken on this bill 2

Date	Chamber	What was voted on	Result	Yes–No
Apr 22, 2021	Senate · vote #165	On Passage of the Bill S. 937	Passed	94–1	See who voted →
Apr 14, 2021	Senate · vote #151	On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed S. 937	Agreed To	92–6	See who voted →

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

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

No Student Loans for Campus Criminals Act

This bill prohibits an individual who is convicted of any federal or state offense related to the individual's conduct at or during the course of a protest at an institution of higher education from receiving certain federal student loan benefits.

Specifically, an individual who is convicted of such an offense shall not be eligible to have any covered loan forgiven, cancelled, waived, or modified under the Higher Education Act of 1965, under any executive order, or through any action taken by the Department of Education. Covered loans refer to Federal Family Education Loans, Federal Direct Loans, Federal Perkins Loans, and loans under the Health Education Assistance Loan Program.

Additionally, an individual who is convicted of such an offense shall not be eligible to receive Federal Direct Loans.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 937: No Student Loans for Campus Criminals Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-937/

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"S. 937: No Student Loans for Campus Criminals Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-937/.

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S. 937, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-937/.

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