[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8729 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8729

 To ensure that institutions of higher education that withhold certain 
   transcripts are eligible to participate in title IV of the Higher 
             Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2024

    Mr. Green of Tennessee introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that institutions of higher education that withhold certain 
   transcripts are eligible to participate in title IV of the Higher 
             Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

    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 ``No Backdoors for Student Debt 
Cancellation Act''.

SEC. 2. TITLE IV ELIGIBILITY.

    The Secretary of Education may not determine an institution of 
higher education (as such term is defined in section 102 of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)) ineligible for participation in 
title IV of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.) because such institution 
withholds from a student, for any reason, transcripts that include all 
credit or clock hours for payment periods in which the student received 
funds under such title and for which all institutional charges were 
paid.
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