PASS Act

Pandemic Accommodation to Support Students Act or the PASS Act

This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to extend certain temporary relief related to federal student loans.

Specifically, the bill extends to September 30, 2021, the suspension of payments and interest due on Federal Direct Loans and Federal Family Education Loans that are held by ED.

Further, ED must carry out a program, beginning on August 1, 2021, to provide at least six notices to borrowers that normal payment obligations will resume.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8820 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8820

   To extend the temporary relief for Federal student loan borrowers 
                     provided under the CARES Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 24, 2020

  Ms. Underwood (for herself, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. Ryan, Mr. 
 Smith of Washington, Mr. Deutch, Ms. Dean, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Ms. 
Tlaib, Mr. Cisneros, Mr. Clay, Mr. Suozzi, Ms. Porter, Mr. Sablan, Mr. 
Cooper, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Larson of 
 Connecticut, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Danny K. 
Davis of Illinois, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Malinowski, Ms. Norton, Mr. Harder 
of California, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Schrier, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Garcia of 
Illinois, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Adams, Ms. Titus, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Morelle, 
Ms. Houlahan, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. McNerney, 
   Mr. Khanna, Mr. Welch, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
  DeSaulnier, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Foster, Mr. Takano, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. 
Cohen, Ms. Meng, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Soto, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. 
 Levin of Michigan, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Scanlon, 
 Mr. Price of North Carolina, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Payne, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. 
  Trone, Mr. Cartwright, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. 
     Speier, Mrs. Bustos, Mr. Rush, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Ted Lieu of 
California, Ms. DeGette, Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. 
     Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. Cardenas, Ms. Judy Chu of 
  California, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mrs. Trahan, Ms. Moore, Ms. 
Johnson of Texas, and Mr. Raskin) introduced the following bill; which 
          was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To extend the temporary relief for Federal student loan borrowers 
                     provided under the CARES Act.

    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 ``Pandemic Accommodation to Support 
Students Act'' or the ``PASS Act''.

SEC. 2. TEMPORARY RELIEF FOR FEDERAL STUDENT LOAN BORROWERS.

    Section 3513 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security 
Act (20 U.S.C. 1001 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``2020'' and inserting 
        ``2021''; and
            (2) in subsection (g)(2), by striking ``2020'' and 
        inserting ``2021''.
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