S. 937

119 S937 IS: No Student Loans for Campus Criminals Act
 U.S. Senate
 2025-03-11
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 II  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  S. 937  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    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.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   No Student Loans for Campus Criminals Act  .
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 ).