A bill to make technical corrections to the College Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act of 2000 and certain amendments made by that Act.

Amends the College Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act of 2000 to: (1) direct the United States Sentencing Commission to amend the Federal sentencing guidelines to provide for enhanced penalties for any offense involving fraud or misrepresentation in connection with obtaining or furnishing information to a consumer on (as under current law), or offering assistance in obtaining, financial assistance toward an education at an institution of higher education, such that those penalties are comparable to those provided for an offense involving fraud or misrepresentation (currently, comparable to the base offense level for misrepresentation) that the defendant was acting on behalf of a charitable, educational, religious, or political organization, or a government agency; and (2) expand the debts that are excluded from permissible exemptions of property from estates in bankruptcy to include a debt in connection with misrepresentation in providing, offering assistance in obtaining, or furnishing information to a consumer on, such financial assistance.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
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[S. 3276 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3276

    To make technical corrections to the College Scholarship Fraud 
    Prevention Act of 2000 and certain amendments made by that Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           December 11 (legislative day, September 22), 2000

  Mr. Abraham (for himself and Mr. Feingold) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To make technical corrections to the College Scholarship Fraud 
    Prevention Act of 2000 and certain amendments made by that Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FRAUD 
              PREVENTION ACT OF 2000.

    (a) Sentencing Enhancement Guidelines.--Section 3 of the College 
Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-420) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``obtaining or providing of'' and inserting 
        ``the obtaining of, the offering of assistance in obtaining''; 
        and
            (2) by striking ``base offense level for 
        misrepresentation'' and inserting ``enhanced penalties provided 
        for in the Federal sentencing guidelines for an offense 
        involving fraud or misrepresentation''.
    (b) Limitation on Exempt Property.--Section 522(c)(4) of title 11, 
United States Code, as added by section 4 of the College Scholarship 
Fraud Prevention Act of 2000, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``in the obtaining or providing of'' and 
        inserting ``or misrepresentation in the providing of, the 
        offering of assistance in obtaining, or the furnishing of 
        information to a consumer on,''; and
            (2) by striking ``(20 U.S.C. 1001)''.
    (c) Effective Date; Application of Amendments.--
            (1) Effective date.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), 
        this section and the amendments made by this section shall take 
        effect on November 1, 2000.
            (2) Application of section 552(c)(4) of title 11, united 
        states code.--Section 522(c)(4) of title 11, United States 
        Code, as added by section 4 of the College Scholarship Fraud 
        Prevention Act of 2000 and as amended by subsection (b) of this 
        section, shall apply only with respect to cases commenced under 
        title 11, United States Code, on or after November 1, 2000.
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