US Congress House Bill 3598 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 48-22)
Status: Engrossed on March 11 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-03-11 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Requires the Department of Education (ED), after providing specified notice, to automatically discharge loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program for certain borrowers who are veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. Specifically, ED must notify a veteran borrower whom the Department of Veterans Affairs has assigned a rating of total disability for a service-connected disability, or who has been determined to be unemployable due to a service-connected condition, of ED's intent to discharge the borrower's loans; provide the borrower with a period of 60 days to opt out of such loan discharge; and discharge the veteran borrower's loans if the borrower does not opt out of such loan discharge within 60 days.

FREED Vets Act Federally Requiring Earned Education-debt Discharges for Vets Act

Rep. Conor Lamb [D-PA]	Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA]	Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Rep. Guy Reschenthaler [R-PA]
Rep. Andy Levin [D-MI]	Rep. Madeleine Dean [D-PA]	Rep. Michael Doyle [D-PA]	Rep. Lauren Underwood [D-IL]
Rep. Nicholas Taylor [R-TX]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]	Rep. Suzanne Lee [D-NV]
Rep. James Baird [R-IN]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]	Rep. Jared Golden [D-ME]	Rep. Mike Kelly [R-PA]
Rep. John Katko [R-NY]	Rep. Tom O'Halleran [D-AZ]	Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]	Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi [D-IL]
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Elaine Luria [D-VA]	Rep. Jeff Van Drew [R-NJ]	Rep. Jason Crow [D-CO]
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez [R-OH]	Rep. Gil Cisneros [D-CA]	Rep. Troy Balderson [R-OH]	Rep. Josh Harder [D-CA]
Rep. David Joyce [R-OH]	Rep. Colin Allred [D-TX]	Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]	Rep. Steve Watkins [R-KS]
Rep. Michael Waltz [R-FL]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Lori Trahan [D-MA]	Rep. Joseph Neguse [D-CO]
Rep. Greg Stanton [D-AZ]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Christopher Pappas [D-NH]	Rep. Mike Gallagher [R-WI]
Rep. Steve Stivers [R-OH]	Rep. Elissa Slotkin [D-MI]	Rep. Salud Carbajal [D-CA]	Rep. Vicente Gonzalez [D-TX]
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon [D-PA]	Rep. Brian Mast [R-FL]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]
Rep. David Trone [D-MD]	Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Elizabeth Fletcher [D-TX]	Rep. Kendra Horn [D-OK]
Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]	Rep. Henry Cuellar [D-TX]	Rep. Glenn Thompson [R-PA]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]
Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. John Moolenaar [R-MI]	Rep. Mike Bost [R-IL]	Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]
Rep. Scott Tipton [R-CO]	Rep. Rebecca Sherrill [D-NJ]	Rep. Jimmy Panetta [D-CA]	Rep. Max Rose [D-NY]
Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Chrissy Houlahan [D-PA]	Rep. Don Bacon [R-NE]	Rep. Greg Steube [R-FL]
Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Rep. Adam Kinzinger [R-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-11	Senate	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
2020-03-10	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2020-03-10	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1575-1576)
2020-03-10	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3598.
2020-03-10	House	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1575-1577)
2020-03-10	House	Mrs. Lee (NV) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2019-06-28	House	Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
2019-06-28	House	Introduced in House

SB2049 (Related) 2019-06-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4678)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3598/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr3598/BILLS-116hr3598ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr3598/BILLS-116hr3598eh.pdf