Prohibiting Student Loan Forgiveness for Antisemites Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9102 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9102

    To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit students 
  convicted of hate crimes for conduct that occurred during a campus 
   protest from being eligible for student loans or loan forgiveness.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2024

 Mr. Gimenez 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 prohibit students 
  convicted of hate crimes for conduct that occurred during a campus 
   protest from being eligible for student loans or loan forgiveness.

    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 ``Prohibiting Student Loan Forgiveness 
for Antisemites Act''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR STUDENT LOANS AND LOAN 
              FORGIVENESS FOR CERTAIN HATE CRIME CONVICTIONS.

    Section 484 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1091) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(u) Termination of Eligibility for Loans and Loan Forgiveness for 
Certain Hate Crime Convictions.--
            ``(1) In general.--A student who is convicted of a hate 
        crime under State or Federal law for conduct that occurred 
        during a protest at an institution of higher education that 
        disrupts the normal campus functions at such institution of 
        higher education shall not be eligible, as of the date of such 
        conviction--
                    ``(A) for any program under this title or any other 
                provision of law that forgives, discharges, cancels, or 
                otherwise reduces the amount that the student owes on 
                any loan made, insured, or guaranteed under this title; 
                or
                    ``(B) to receive any loan made, insured, or 
                guaranteed under this title.
            ``(2) Hate crime defined.--The term `hate crime' includes 
        an act described in section 249 of title 18, United States 
        Code.''.
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