PROPEL Act

Professional Pell Education Learning or the PROPEL Act

This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow federal Pell Grants to be utilized at educational programs that consist of vocational or technical training, flight training, apprenticeship, or other on-job training. In addition, the bill modifies the eligibility requirements under the Federal Pell Grant program for the vocational and training programs, including allowing such programs to be unaccredited.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3831 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3831

  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand eligibility for 
   participation in the Federal Pell Grant program to certain trade 
                                schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 2017

   Mr. Taylor (for himself and Mr. Gonzalez of Texas) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand eligibility for 
   participation in the Federal Pell Grant program to certain trade 
                                schools.

    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 ``Professional Pell Education 
Learning'' or the ``PROPEL Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL PELL GRANTS.

    (a) Clarification of Eligible Institutions.--Section 401(a) of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(a)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
            ``(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, for 
        purposes of this section, the terms `eligible institution', 
        `institution of higher education', `eligible program', and 
        `institution' include a program of education that--
                    ``(A) consists of vocational or technical training, 
                flight training, or apprenticeship or other on-job 
                training;
                    ``(B) an individual may pursue using educational 
                assistance pursuant to section 3313(g) of title 38, 
                United States Code;
                    ``(C) is less than 600 clock hours of instruction, 
                16 semester hours, or 24 quarter hours, offered during 
                a period of less than 15 weeks;
                    ``(D) is not required to be accredited by a 
                nationally recognized accrediting agency or association 
                recognized by the Secretary pursuant to part H;
                    ``(E) is not required to lead to a recognized 
                educational credential;
                    ``(F) for purposes of the reporting requirements 
                under section 132(i), reports on all enrolled students 
                without regard to whether a student is a first-time, 
                full-time, degree- or certificate-seeking student; and
                    ``(G) except as otherwise provided in subparagraphs 
                (A) through (F) of this paragraph, meets the 
                requirements of this title for an institution to 
                participate in the program under this section.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 484(a)(1) of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1091(a)(1)) is amended by inserting 
``or, for purposes of the Federal Pell Grant program under section 401, 
a program of education described in section 401(a)(4)'' after ``section 
487''.
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