Early Pell Promise Act
- Last Action
- 5/8/2019
Actions
- 2019-05-08Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 2019-05-08Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2019-05-08 (00)
Early Pell Promise Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Education (ED) to carry out an Early Federal Pell Grant Commitment Program under which ED must make a commitment to award Pell Grants to certain students.
To be eligible to receive such a commitment, the student must be in grades 8 through 12 and a member of a household receiving assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Pursuant to such a commitment, the student shall receive a Pell Grant during the first two academic years of attendance at an institution of higher education (IHE) as an undergraduate if the student
- files the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form for the award year in which the student will be in attendance at the IHE, and
- enrolls at the IHE not later than one year after receiving a secondary school diploma or not later than three years after release from the Armed Forces.
Subjects
- Academic performance and assessments
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Education programs funding
- Food assistance and relief
- Government information and archives
- Higher education
- Medicaid
- Military personnel and dependents
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Student aid and college costs
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
- Vocational and technical education
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