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Fulbright Teacher’s Loan Forgiveness Act
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow participation in certain Fulbright programs to qualify for the repayment plan for public service employees, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends the Higher Education Act to allow participation in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program and the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program to qualify as public service employment for the purposes of student loan forgiveness. Teachers who participate in these Fulbright programs would become eligible for loan cancellation under the existing Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which currently forgives federal student loans after ten years of qualifying public service employment.
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- Aug 15, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
- Aug 15, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 15, 2025
Mr. Beyer (for himself, Ms. Chu, Mr. Carson, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, and Ms. McBride) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow participation in certain Fulbright programs to qualify for the repayment plan for public service employees, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Fulbright Teacher’s Loan Forgiveness Act”.
SEC. 2. REPAYMENT PLAN FOR PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES.
Section 455(m) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(5) Fulbright eligibility.—For purposes of loan cancellation under this subsection, participation in a Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program or the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program shall be treated as employment in a public service job.”. <all>
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