20 U.S.C. § 1087ll
Cost of attendance
United States · Title 20 — EDUCATION · Status: effective
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For the purpose of this subchapter, the term “cost of attendance” means—
an allowance for living expenses, including food and housing costs, to be incurred by the student attending the institution on at least a half-time basis, as determined by the institution, which shall include—
for a student with one or more dependents, an allowance based on the estimated actual expenses incurred for such dependent care, based on the number and age of such dependents, except that—
For students attending an institution of higher education less than half-time, an institution of higher education may include an allowance for living expenses, including food and housing costs in accordance with subsection (a)(4) for up to three semesters, or the equivalent, with no more than two semesters being consecutive.
Each institution shall make publicly available on the institution’s website a list of all the elements of cost of attendance described in paragraphs (1) through (14) of subsection (a), and shall disclose such elements on any portion of the website describing tuition and fees of the institution.
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 The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.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 Amendments of 1992
- Higher Education Technical Amendments of 1993House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Higher Education Amendments of 1998
- Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
- Higher Education Opportunity Act
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally