Domenic and Ed’s Law

Student financial assistance issues, specifically those related to student loans, as Congress works to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. Specific bills include endorsing S.1219, Domenic and Eds Law, which would allow a parent whose child develops a total and permanent disability to qualify for student loan discharge; H.R.2888, Stop Student Debt Relief Scams Act of 2019, which would enhance law enforcement and administrative abilities to identify and shut down student debt relief scams; and S.1364, Early Pell Promise Act which would provide more financial certainty for families by pre-qualifying certain students for full Pell Grant support starting as early as the eighth grade and expressed concerns about an amendment offered to H.R.3375, the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act.