COMMITTEE ON RULES - H.R. 3221 - Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009

Sep 14, 2009
5:55PM

Summary of Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee for

H.R. 3221 - Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009

(summaries derived from information provided by sponsors)

Listed in Alphabetical Order

September 15, 2009 4:37 PM

Ackerman (NY)	#23	Withdrawn The amendment would increase the accessibility of the Upward Bound and Talent Search programs by encouraging in-school college-entrance examination assistance, if practicable.
Adler (NJ)	#15	The amendment would give priority for State Innovation Completion grants to entities that promote activities to increase degree or certificate completion for students who are veterans.
Barrow (GA)	#22	Withdrawn The amendment would require the Secretary of Education to provide technical assistance to institutions of higher education in operating the Direct Loan program, including assisting institutions with the transition into the program.
Bordallo (GU)	#18	The amendment would allow students from the Freely Associated States, whose governments enter into Compacts of Free Association with the government, to be eligible for the federal work study program.
Cardoza (CA)	#13	Revised The amendment would direct the Secretary of Education to prioritize community colleges located in areas with high unemployment rates when awarding grants for community college reform.
Carter (TX)	#3	The amendment would prohibit the Secretary from implementing a full scale Direct Loan program until 80% of schools enter the Direct Loan program voluntarily.
Childers (MS)	#1	Revised The amendment would require the campus Veterans Resource Officer to act as a link between student veterans and mental health care providers at the Department of Veterans Affairs, in order to help improve college completion rates for veterans.
Crowley (NY)	#35	Would allow student loan forgiveness for college students in exchange for time served as a mentor for at-risk children.
Cuellar (TX)	#8	Revised The amendment would require the Secretary of Education to conduct outreach activities to educate students and their families about the transition to Direct Lending.
Cuellar (TX)	#31	Would require the GAO to study the budgetary impact of the transition from FFELP to the Direct Lending Program.
Driehaus (OH)	#6	Revised The amendment would require that states receiving State Innovation Completion Grants have plans to increase postsecondary enrollment and completion among dislocated workers.
Etheridge (NC)	#42	Revised The amendment would reserve 5 percent of funding under Title III, Chapter 1 (GRANTS FOR MODERNIZATION, RENOVATION, OR REPAIR OF PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES) for school districts that serve the children of military families. It would give special preference to districts facing particular strain as a result of the closure or realignment of a installation under the BRAC process.
Etheridge (NC), Welch (VT), Price, David (NC), Pomeroy (ND), Lewis, John (GA), Scott, David (GA), Pingree (ME), Tonko (NY)/Matsui (CA)	#43	The amendment would clarify that borrower services, including delinquency prevention, default aversion, and loan counseling, are allowed uses of grant funds. The amendment also explicitly authorizes the Department of Education to contract directly with guaranty agencies for funded services.
Flake, Jeff (AZ)	#7	The amendment would prohibit funds appropriated under the bill to be used for Congressional earmarks as defined by clause 9(d) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives.
Foxx (NC)	#16	The amendment would strike entire American Graduation Initiative (but maintain the privacy provisions that apply to the whole Act) and put the savings toward deficit reduction. These privacy provisions ensure that student information is protected from individuals not authorized to view it and that students cannot be identified by any unique identifier.
Garrett (NJ)	#21	The amendment would strike the entire Early Learning Challenge Fund and put the savings towards deficit reduction.
Grijalva, Raul (AZ)	#30	Withdrawn Would include library services and information literacy activities as part of the enumerated uses of funds under the list of student support services and workforce programs.
Himes (CT), McCarthy, Carolyn (NY), Schwartz (PA)	#40	Would make five minor language adjustments to strengthen the financial literacy provisions of the State Innovation Completion Grants, Innovation in College Access and Completion National Activities, and contracting requirements related to private student loan servicers.
Hoekstra (MI), Burton (IN)	#27	Would strike the elimination of the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program.
Hoekstra (MI)	#44	The amendment would strike Title III of the bill, which authorizes $6.6 billion in new mandatory spending to create three Federal school construction programs for elementary and secondary public schools and institutions of higher education, and apply the savings to reduce the Federal deficit.
Kennedy (RI)	#36	Withdrawn Would add a requirement in the state application of how programs will improve early learning services to better meet the needs of children who have experienced abused or neglect, or have been exposed to violence or toxic stress, homelessness, parental substance abuse or mental illness, or early behavioral and peer relationship problems.
Kilroy (OH)	#32	Revised Would give priority to “dislocated workers” for community college and state grants.
King, Steve (IA)	#17	The amendment would remove Davis-Bacon wage provisions from the bill.
Kline, John (MN), Guthrie (KY)	#25	Revised Substitute Would extend the ECASLA programs through 2014 and create a commission to develop a new private sector model for student lending.
Loebsack (IA)	#19	Withdrawn This amendment clarifies that both part-time and full-time students are eligible to benefit from the Year-Round Pell Grant program.
McMorris Rodgers (WA)	#26	Would limit the ability of certain schools that received funding under the economic stimulus package for school construction from receiving additional money through the new Federal school construction program authorized under this bill.
Miller, George (CA)	#45	Revised Managers Amendment · makes several clarifications to the authority of the Secretary with respect to the College Access Challenge Grants, State Innovation an Completion Grants, and Innovation in College Access and Competition National Activities Grants;· ensures that services for veterans under the bill and current law are properly coordinated;· establishes a program to provide financial assistance to dependent children of a public safety officer (e.g., firefighters, paramedics, other first responders) who died in the line of duty on the same terms as children of military servicemembers who are killed in the line of duty under current law; · authorizes a program to promote and support teacher excellence; · makes several clarifications to the loan servicing process; · Makes clarifications to the grants for modernization, renovation, or repair of public school facilities · Replaces a priority provision about state spending with a requirement that the Secretary consider the State’s recent financial commitment to early learning when evaluating Quality Pathway grant renewals; · clarifies the Secretary’s authority to award American Graduation Initiative grants to community colleges; and · specifies that Tribal Colleges and Universities are eligible to receive American Graduation Initiation grants.
Minnick (ID)	#14	The amendment would allow servicemen and women to tranfer academic credits earned while serving in the Armed Forces between institutions of higher education.
Murphy, Christopher (CT)	#12	The amendment would clarify that states may use funds awarded as Quality Pathways Grants under Section 403(a) of Title IV of H.R. 3221 to establish or support partnerships with institutions of higher education that support effective education and training for early learning providers.
Perriello (VA)	#9	The amendment would require states to evaluate and report disparities by geographic area (rural and urban) of available high-quality early learning programs for low-income children, and steps the state will take to address the disparity.
Pingree (ME)/Ross (AR)	#28	Revised Would remove the prohibition of funding to community colleges who received funds for construction, modernization, renovation, and repair under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Pingree (ME)	#29	Would add to the list of reserved funds for distressed areas and areas affected by natural disaster direction for the Secretary to reserve funds for local educational agencies that serve a geographic area that contains a military installation selected for base closure.
Price, Tom (GA), Castle (DE)	#2	Provides that the Act would fail to take effect if the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury, determines that the provisions of Sec. 201 (ending the FFEL program) will result in more than 5,000 job losses.
Reyes (TX)	#5	The amendment would encourage community colleges to use grant money to increase the provision of training for members of the National Guard and Reserves, and men and women returning from active duty.
Roskam (IL)	#10	The amendment would prohibit using federal funding to carry out titles III through V of H.R. 3221 until the national deficit is under $1 trillion.
Ross (AR)	#11	Withdrawn The amendment would allow community colleges that received funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to also receive funding under this Act.
Ryan, Paul (WI)	#20	The amendment would add a Sense of Congress recommending that the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 be updated to require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to adjust for market risk when estimating the budgetary effects of changes to Federal student loan programs.
Schauer (MI)	#4	The amendment would give priority in awarding Federal grants to schools, states, and non-profits to encourage dislocated workers to complete their degrees.
Sestak (PA)	#34	Withdrawn Would direct the Learning and Earning Center to establish a service that enables students to better determine transferability of credits between post-secondary institutions.
Smith, Adam (WA)	#33	Would direct the Secretary to conduct a study to determine what impacts the static Pell Grant award levels from 2003 to 2007 had financially on families and on college access, and to determine if a static Pell Grant maximum award level would affect the ability of students and families to plan and prepare for higher education.
Souder (IN)	#24	The amendment would strike section 123(d), "Suspension of eligibility for drug-related offenses," reinstating current law.
Teague (NM)	#37	Revised Would add veterans to the list of priority grantees in Title V.
Teague (NM)	#38	Withdrawn Would add, to the allowable uses of funds, programs that prepare students to enter careers in the Veterans Administration.
Teague (NM)	#39	Withdrawn Would add, to the allowable uses of funds, programs that prepare students to enter skilled occupations in energy-related fields.
Teague (NM)	#41	Revised The amendment clarifies that all savings in the bill not otherwise allocated go towards deficit reduction.