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H.R. 2881: SERVE Act

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H.R. 2881: SERVE Act

113th Congress · introduced 2013-07-31 · Education · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-07-31 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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What does this mean?

Official title

SERVE Act

Plain summary

Support Educators and Reinvest in Valuable Education Act or the SERVE Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase, from $5,000 to $17,500, the amount of loan forgiveness available under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) and Direct Loan (DL) programs to highly qualified teachers who have been employed at a low income school in the same local educational agency (LEA) for five consecutive complete school years. Requires those low income schools to be schools: (1) at which more than 30% of the students are impoverished, and (2) located within the school district of an LEA that is eligible for school improvement funds under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Excepts PLUS loans under the FFEL and DL programs that are provided to the parents of dependent undergraduate students from that loan forgiveness program. Includes consolidation loans in that loan forgiveness program, but only to the extent they are used to repay eligible FFELs or DLs.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

SERVE Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1] · 21 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Robin L. Kelly (D-IL), Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY), André Carson (D-IN), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Steve Cohen (D-TN)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-hr2881 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113