H.R.5836: Veterans and Service Members Educational Benefits Safety Act

About This Bill

  • This bill was introduced in the 112th Congress
  • This bill is primarily about education
  • Introduced May 18, 2012
  • Latest Major Action Sept. 26, 2012

Bill Summary

Veterans and Service Members Educational Benefits Safety Act - Makes institutions of higher education that have a cohort default rate equal to or greater than 30% for each of the three most recent fiscal years ineligible to participate in military and veterans' educational assistance programs. (The cohort default rate represents the percentage of a school's current and former students who begin to repay Federal Family Education Loans [FFELs]...

(Source: Library of Congress)

Bill Actions

Date Description
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
Referred to House Armed Services
Referred to House Veterans' Affairs
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
May 18, 2012

Introduced in the House by Leonard L. Boswell (D-Iowa)

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