H.R. 3598 — FREED Vets Act

Summary

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.

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2019-06-28

Introduced in House

2019-06-28

Introduced in House

2019-06-28

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

2020-03-10

Mrs. Lee (NV) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

2020-03-10

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1575-1577)

2020-03-10

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3598.

2020-03-10

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.

2020-03-10

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1575-1576)

2020-03-10

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

2020-03-11

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

FREED Vets Act

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