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No Loan Forgiveness for Terrorists Act of 2025
To amend the public service loan forgiveness program under the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure qualifying public service excludes employment with organizations that engage in activities that have a substantial illegal purpose.
Summary
This bill would amend the public service loan forgiveness program to exclude employees of organizations that engage in activities with a substantial illegal purpose from qualifying for loan forgiveness. The bill specifically identifies several categories of illegal activities that would disqualify an organization, including aiding or abetting immigration law violations, materially supporting terrorism or designated terrorist organizations, materially supporting child abuse, engaging in patterns of illegal discrimination, and engaging in patterns of violating state tort laws such as trespassing, disorderly conduct, public nuisance, vandalism, or obstruction of highways. An employee working for an organization engaged in these activities would no longer be eligible to have their federal student loans forgiven through the public service loan forgiveness program, even if they otherwise meet the program's requirements.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN] (R-IN)
2 cosponsors
- Sen. Moreno, Bernie [R-OH] (R-OH)
- Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL] (R-AL)
Actions (2)
- May 21, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · senate
- May 21, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 21, 2025
Mr. Banks (for himself and Mr. Tuberville) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
A BILL
To amend the public service loan forgiveness program under the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure qualifying public service excludes employment with organizations that engage in activities that have a substantial illegal purpose.
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 “No Loan Forgiveness for Terrorists Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL ILLEGAL PURPOSE FROM PUBLIC SERVICE LOAN FORGIVENESS.
Section 455(m)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(C) Exclusion from public service job.— Notwithstanding subparagraph (B), the term ‘public service job’ excludes employment with any organization that engages in activities that have a substantial illegal purpose, including—
“(i) aiding or abetting a violation of section 275 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325) or another Federal immigration law;
“(ii) materially supporting terrorism, including by facilitating funding to, or the operations of, cartels designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations consistent with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189), or by engaging in violence for the purpose of obstructing or influencing Federal Government policy;
“(iii) materially supporting child abuse, including the chemical or surgical castration or mutilation of children or the trafficking of children to transgender sanctuary States for purposes of emancipation from their lawful parents, in violation of applicable law;
“(iv) engaging in a pattern of aiding or abetting illegal discrimination; or
“(v) engaging in a pattern of violating State tort laws, including laws against trespassing, disorderly conduct, public nuisance, vandalism, or obstruction of highways.”. <all>
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