20 U.S.C. § 1087ee
Cancellation of loans for certain public service
United States · Title 20 — EDUCATION · Status: effective
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Loans shall be canceled under paragraph (1) for service—
as a full-time teacher for service in an academic year (including such a teacher employed by an educational service agency)—
in a public or other nonprofit private elementary school or secondary school, which, for the purpose of this paragraph and for that year—
as a librarian, if the librarian has a master’s degree in library science and is employed in—
The percent of a loan which shall be canceled under paragraph (1) of this subsection is—
The Secretary shall pay to each institution for each fiscal year an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts of loans from its student loan fund which are canceled pursuant to this section for such year, minus an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts of any such loans so canceled which were made from Federal capital contributions to its student loan fund provided by the Secretary under section 1087hh of this title. None of the funds appropriated pursuant to section 1087aa(b) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title shall be available for payments pursuant to this subsection. To the extent feasible, the Secretary shall pay the amounts for which any institution qualifies under this subsection not later than 3 months after the institution files an institutional application for campus-based funds.
If the list of schools in which a teacher may perform service pursuant to subsection (a)(2)(A) is not available before May 1 of any year, the Secretary may use the list for the year preceding the year for which the determination is made to make such service determination.
Any teacher who performs service in a school which—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Higher Education Amendments of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Higher Education Technical Amendments Act of 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prevent abuses in the Supplemental Loans for Students program under part B of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1990House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Crime Control Act of 1990House: 313–1Senate: no recorded tally
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1991House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Higher Education Amendments of 1992
- National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993
- Higher Education Technical Amendments of 1993House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Improving America's Schools Act of 1994
- Higher Education Amendments of 1998
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004
- Higher Education Opportunity Act
- To make technical corrections to the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.House: 411–0Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017