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H.R. 3598 · 116th Congress

Federally Requiring Earned Education-debt Discharges for Vets Act

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Passed the House without a recorded vote, then expired. It passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record how each member voted, but didn't become law before the 116th Congress ended.

CLD LambSponsor
69 cosponsors · 48 D, 21 R
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4 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

  1. House Introduced Jun 28, 2019
  2. House Passed Mar 10, 2020

Federally Requiring Earned Education-debt Discharges for Vets Act or the FREED Vets Act

What it does: CRS summary · Passed House · Mar 10, 2020

Federally Requiring Earned Education-debt Discharges for Vets Act or the FREED Vets Act

This bill requires the Department of Education (ED), after providing specified notice, to automatically discharge loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program for certain borrowers who are veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Specifically, ED must

  • notify a veteran borrower whom the Department of Veterans Affairs has assigned a rating of total disability for a service-connected disability, or who has been determined to be unemployable due to a service-connected condition, of ED's intent to discharge the borrower's loans;
  • provide the borrower with a period of 60 days to opt out of such loan discharge; and
  • discharge the veteran borrower's loans if the borrower does not opt out of such loan discharge within 60 days.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: FREED Vets Act

Latest action (Mar 11, 2020): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Policy area: Education · Origin: House · Introduced: Jun 28, 2019

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

  1. House Introduced Jun 28, 2019
  2. House Passed Mar 10, 2020

No recorded floor vote found.