Student Grant Hurricane and Disaster Relief Act

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Student Grant Hurricane and Disaster Relief Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to waive certain requirements for repayment of federal student grant assistance by students if: (1) they were residing in, employed in, or attending an institution of higher education located in a major disaster area; (2) their attendance was interrupted because of the disaster's impact on them or the institution; and (3) their withdrawal ended within the academic year during which the major disaster designation occurred or during the next succeeding academic year.

[109th Congress Public Law 67]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


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Public Law 109-67
109th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To provide the Secretary of Education with waiver authority for students 
who are eligible for Federal student grant assistance who are adversely 
 affected by a major disaster. <<NOTE: Sept. 21, 2005 -  [H.R. 3668]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress <<NOTE: Student Grant Hurricane and 
Disaster Relief Act.>> assembled,

SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 20 USC 1001 note.>> SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Student Grant Hurricane and Disaster 
Relief Act''.

SEC. 2. WAIVERS OF STUDENT GRANT ASSISTANCE REPAYMENT BY STUDENTS 
            AFFECTED BY DISASTERS.

    Section 484B(b)(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1091b(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(E) Waivers of grant assistance repayment by 
                students affected by disasters.--In addition to the 
                waivers authorized by subparagraph (D), the Secretary 
                may waive the amounts that students are required to 
                return under this section with respect to any other 
                grant assistance under this title if the withdrawals on 
                which the returns are based are withdrawals by 
                students--
                          ``(i) who were residing in, employed in, or 
                      attending an institution of higher education that 
                      is located in an area in which the President has 
                      declared that a major disaster exists, in 
                      accordance with section 401 of the Robert T. 
                      Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
                      Act (42 U.S.C. 5170);
                          ``(ii) whose attendance was interrupted 
                      because of the impact of the disaster on the 
                      student or the institution; and

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                          ``(iii) whose withdrawal ended within the 
                      academic year during which the designation 
                      occurred or during the next succeeding academic 
                      year.''.

    Approved September 21, 2005.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 3668:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 151 (2005):
            Sept. 8, considered and passed House.
            Sept. 15, considered and passed Senate.

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