Need-Based Educational Aid Act of 2008

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on September 25, 2008. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Need-Based Educational Aid Act of 2008 - Amends the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 to extend, through September 30, 2015, the antitrust exemption that allows institutions of higher education that admit all students on a need-blind basis to enter into agreements, or attempt to enter into agreements, among themselves regarding the administration of need-based financial aid.

[110th Congress Public Law 327]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


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Public Law 110-327
110th Congress

                                 An Act


 
 To amend the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 to make permanent 
    the favorable treatment of need-based educational aid under the 
        antitrust laws. <<NOTE: Sept. 30, 2008 -  [H.R. 1777]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress <<NOTE: Need-Based Educational Aid 
Act of 2008.>> assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT <<NOTE: 15 USC 1 note.>> TITLE.

     This Act may be cited as the ``Need-Based Educational Aid Act of 
2008''.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 568(d) of the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 (15 
U.S.C. 1 note) is amended by striking ``2008'' and inserting ``2015''.

    Approved September 30, 2008.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 1777:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 110-577 (Comm. on the Judiciary).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 154 (2008):
            Apr. 30, considered and passed House.
            Sept. 25, considered and passed Senate, amended.
            Sept. 27, House concurred in Senate amendment.

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