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Creates a package of higher-education changes that aims to eliminate tuition and required fees for eligible students, expand and increase Pell Grant funding and eligibility (including certain immigrant-status students), and raise authorized funding for HBCUs, TCUs, and other minority‑serving institutions. It establishes new grant programs for private nonprofit HBCUs/MSIs and for inclusive student success, increases multi-year authorizations for college-support programs (including GEAR UP), and specifies that Pell Grants are excluded from gross income. Much of the file provided contains headings and amendments but omits full statutory text for several new programs, so some implementation details (eligibility rules, formula mechanics, agency responsibilities, and timelines) are not specified in the material reviewed.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced May 21, 2025 by Bernard Sanders · Last progress May 21, 2025