Keep College Students Learning Act
This bill requires covered institutions of higher education to ensure that prospective and enrolled students may use their financial aid for enrollment purposes, regardless of whether the student delays enrollment or takes a leave of absence for up to one academic year during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. Covered institution of higher education refers to an institution that receives federal funds and offers in-person instruction at levels less than the first semester (or the equivalent) of the 2019-2020 academic year.
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to clarify the treatment of 
              certain institutional financial assistance.

    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 ``Keep College Students Learning 
Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

    Part C of title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1015 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 138. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

    ``(a) In General.--A covered institution of higher education shall 
ensure that a student who has received institutional financial 
assistance from such institution may use such assistance for enrollment 
at such institution without regard to whether, during the COVID-19 
pandemic, the student delays such enrollment or takes a leave of 
absence from such institution for up to one academic year.
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Covered institution of higher education.--The term 
        `covered institution of higher education' means an institution 
        of higher education (as defined in section 102) that--
                    ``(A) receives funds under this Act; and
                    ``(B) offers in-person instruction at levels less 
                than the first semester (or the equivalent) of academic 
                year 2019-2020.
            ``(2) Student.--The term `student' includes a prospective 
        student.''.
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Keep College Students Learning Act
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to clarify the treatment of certain institutional financial assistance.
Keep College Students Learning Act
Rep. Davis, Rodney