SIMPLE Act
Summary
Streamlining Income-driven, Manageable Payments on Loans for Education Act or the SIMPLE Act This bill directs the Department of Education to establish certain notification and automatic enrollment procedures for borrowers who are delinquent on federal student loans or who are rehabilitating defaulted student loans, including to automatically enroll these borrowers in income-driven repayment plans.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jul 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jul 27, 2022
Last action Jul 27, 2022
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Committee
1
Jul 27, 2022
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
lower
Jul 27, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Suzanne Bonamici
DDemocratic
Co
Brian K. Fitzpatrick
RRepublican
Co
Conor Lamb
DDemocratic
Co
Tom O’Halleran
DDemocratic
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