Foster Youth Higher Education Opportunities Act

Foster Youth Higher Education Opportunities Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to inform students who indicate on their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form that they are or were in the foster care system of their potential eligibility for federal student aid, including the specific federal programs under which they may be eligible for assistance.

Requires the Secretary to provide foster youth with that same information on the Department of Education's website.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3665 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3665

  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide information to 
  foster youth on their potential eligibility for Federal student aid.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 6, 2012

   Mr. Kerry (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Franken, Mr. Levin, Mrs. 
 Murray, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Begich, Mr. Rockefeller, and 
 Ms. Landrieu) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide information to 
  foster youth on their potential eligibility for Federal student aid.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Foster Youth Higher Education 
Opportunities Act''.

SEC. 2. INFORMING FOSTER YOUTH OF THEIR POTENTIAL ELIGIBILITY FOR 
              FEDERAL STUDENT AID.

    Section 483 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1090) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i) Informing Foster Youth of Their Potential Eligibility for 
Federal Student Aid.--The Secretary shall inform each student who 
indicates on a FAFSA form, in either paper or electronic format, that 
the student is a foster youth or was in the foster care system of the 
student's potential eligibility for Federal student aid, including the 
specific Federal programs under which such student may be eligible to 
receive assistance such as the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence 
Program under section 477 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
677).''.

SEC. 3. INFORMATION FOR FOSTER YOUTH ON DEPARTMENT WEBSITE.

    Section 485E(b) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1092f(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Information for foster youth on department website.--
        The Secretary shall include on the Department's website 
        information for foster youth regarding such youth's potential 
        eligibility for Federal student aid, including the specific 
        Federal programs under which such youth may be eligible to 
        receive assistance.''.
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