S.Amdt. 3957

SA 3957. Mr. BOOKER (for himself, Ms. Smith, and Mrs. Shaheen)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3695
proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for
the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place in title III of division B, insert
the following:
Sec. ___.  Not later than 6 months after the date of
enactment of this Act and periodically thereafter, the
Secretary of Education shall--
(1) work with States to identify and implement a process
for increasing awareness of, and simplifying the application
and certification process for, TEACH Grants under subpart 9
of part A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 1070g et seq.);
(2) review and make appropriate changes to the procedures
through which the service obligation of a recipient of a
TEACH Grant is converted to a loan and a recipient engages in
dispute resolution procedures;
(3) disseminate to recipients and make publicly available
and accessible on the Department's website, clear, consistent
information on program service requirements and the
procedures related to grant to loan conversions, including--
(A) an explanation that recipients have an option to appeal
a conversion or waiver decision under a TEACH Grant;
(B) how a recipient can initiate an appeal; and
(C) the specific criteria in considering the appeal;
(4) clarify that a teacher in a qualifying teaching
position at a qualifying school that meets the TEACH Grant
program service obligation requirements for all or part of
one of the required 4 years of teaching and for the school
year in which the teacher was initially hired, but for which
such school fails to meet such requirements in subsequent
years, shall be deemed to meet program service requirements
for all of the subsequent years during which the teacher
remains at such school;
(5) provide the full biennial report to Congress on the
TEACH Grant program, as required under section 420P of the
Higher Education Act of 1965, including copies of all
previous reports required since the program's inception;
(6) make publicly available any analysis, findings, or
results of any reviews by the Department of Education
regarding erroneous or unfair conversions of TEACH Grants to
loans; and
(7) direct the Commissioner of the National Center for
Education Statistics to add a school ID number to the data
collected in the Teacher Cancellation Low Income Directory.
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