A bill to enhance protections against fraud in the offering of financial assistance for college education, and for other purposes.
(Sec. 4) Excludes debts in connection with such fraud from permissible exemptions of property from estates in bankruptcy.
(Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary of Education: (1) and the Attorney General, in conjunction with the FTC, to jointly submit to Congress each year a report on fraud in the offering of financial assistance for financing an education at an institution of higher education; and (2) in conjunction with the FTC, to maintain a scholarship fraud awareness site on the Internet web site of the Department of Education.
Received in the Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S14047-14049; text as passed Senate: CR S14048-14049; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S14047-14048)
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S14047-14049; text as passed Senate: CR S14048-14049; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S14047-14048)
Received in the House.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
Mr. Upton moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Enacted as Public Law 106-420
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Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8005-8006)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 1455.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8005)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8005)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 106-420.
Became Public Law No: 106-420.