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This bill would require the Department of Education to get rid of the Office of Enforcement within the Office of Federal Student Aid. In simple terms, it would shut down the part of the student aid office that was created to handle enforcement and oversight work. The bill gives the Secretary of Education, working through the chief operating officer for Federal Student Aid, the job of carrying out that change.
- The office targeted by the bill was created in 2021 to help with enforcement and stronger oversight of federal student aid programs.
- The bill does not describe any new replacement office or new enforcement structure.
- Its main effect would be to remove this enforcement function from Federal Student Aid.
Official Summaries
Guarding Religious And Career Education Act or the GRACE Act
This bill directs the Department of Education's Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) to eliminate its Office of Enforcement. On October 8, 2021, the FSA announced it was reestablishing the Office of Enforcement to strengthen oversight of and enforcement actions against postsecondary schools that participate in federal student loan, grant, and work-study programs.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1825 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1825
To direct the Secretary of Education to eliminate the Office of
Enforcement within the Office of Federal Student Aid, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 4, 2025
Mr. Biggs of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Education and Workforce
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A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Education to eliminate the Office of
Enforcement within the Office of Federal Student Aid, 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 ``Guarding Religious And Career
Education Act'' or the ``GRACE Act''.
SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF OFFICE OF ENFORCEMENT.
The Secretary of Education, acting through the chief operating
officer for the Office of Federal Student Aid, shall eliminate the
Office of Enforcement (as established pursuant to the electronic
announcement entitled ``(GENERAL-21-64) Federal Student Aid to
Establish Enforcement Office and Enhance Federal and State Oversight
Partnerships'' and published on October 8, 2021).
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