About the bill
If you default on your student loans, and you haven’t received your college transcript yet, should the university have the right to withhold its release to you?
Context
Some colleges and universities refuse to release a student’s transcripts if they have defaulted on their student loan payments, as an incentive for students to make the payments.
“Your school may withhold your academic transcript until your defaulted student loan is satisfied,” the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid warns. “The academic transcript is the property of the school, and it is the school’s decision — not the U.S. Department of Education’s or your loan holder’s — whether to release the transcript to you.”
What the bill does
Sponsor and status
116th Congress (2019–2021)
Introduced on Jul 15, 2019
This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on July 15, 2019. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.
Position statements
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H.R. 3761 is a bill in the United States Congress.
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