Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Amends the Higher Education Act to allow borrowers serving in medical or dental internships or residencies to defer federal student loan principal payments without interest accruing during that deferment period. The change adds internship/residency status to in-school deferment eligibility and creates a special rule making such deferments interest-free for loans under this part.
Cost to taxpayers versus relief for trainees
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a direct statutory amendment that clearly establishes interest-free in-school deferment for borrowers serving in medical or dental internships or residencies.
Amends the Higher Education Act to allow borrowers serving in medical or dental internships or residencies to defer federal student loan principal payments without interest accruing during that deferment period.
The change adds internship/residency status to in-school deferment eligibility and creates a special rule making such deferments interest-free for loans under this part.
Content is modest and administratively clear, aiding prospects, but fiscal impact and precedent for other borrower groups reduce likelihood without broader package support.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a direct statutory amendment that clearly establishes interest-free in-school deferment for borrowers serving in medical or dental internships or residencies. It is precise in the core legal effect but limited in operational, fiscal, and safeguards detail.
Cost to taxpayers versus relief for trainees
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Cost to taxpayers versus relief for trainees
Generally supportive.
This reduces debt pressure on medical and dental trainees, which aligns with goals to expand access to care and reduce financial barriers to medical careers.
Would likely want broader equity measures paired with it.
Cautiously favorable if costs are reasonable and implementation is clear.
Views it as a modest, targeted relief measure but wants fiscal analysis and safeguards against unintended incentives.
Likely opposed.
Sees this as an expansion of federal subsidy favoring one professional group and increasing taxpayer burden.
Prefers market-based or targeted need-based solutions instead.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Content is modest and administratively clear, aiding prospects, but fiscal impact and precedent for other borrower groups reduce likelihood without broader package support.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Cost to taxpayers versus relief for trainees
Content is modest and administratively clear, aiding prospects, but fiscal impact and precedent for other borrower groups reduce likelihood…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a direct statutory amendment that clearly establishes interest-free in-school deferment for borrowers serving in medical or dental internships or residencies. It i…
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