119-s937

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 937 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 937

 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.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 March 11 (legislative day, March 10), 2025

 Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
 referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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 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.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``No Student Loans for Campus 
Criminals Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS ON RECEIPT OF FEDERAL STUDENT LOANS AND LOAN 
 FORGIVENESS FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) Prohibitions.--

    (1) Loan forgiveness.--Notwithstanding any other provision 
 of law, an individual described in paragraph

    (3) shall not be 
 eligible to have any covered loan, or a portion of such loan, 
 forgiven, cancelled, waived, or modified under the Higher 
 Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) or under any 
 other Executive Order or action of the Department of Education.

    (2) Loan receipt.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
 law, an individual described in paragraph

    (3) shall not be 
 eligible to receive a loan made under part D of title IV of the 
 Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087a et seq.).

    (3) Affected individual.--An individual described in this 
 paragraph is 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.

    (b) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this section:

    (1) Covered loan.--The term ``covered loan'' means--
        (A) a loan made, insured, or guaranteed under part 
 B, D, or E of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 
 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1071 et seq.; 1087a et seq.; 1087aa et 
 seq.) before, on, or after the date of enactment of 
 this Act; or
        (B) a loan under the Health Education Assistance 
 Loan Program under title VII of the Public Health 
 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 292 et seq.) made before, on, or 
 after the date of enactment of this Act.

    (2) Institution of higher education.--The term 
 ``institution of higher education'' has the meaning given that 
 term in 

section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
 U.S.C. 1002).
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