Sec. 484. FAFSA Simplification
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Section 483 ( 20 U.S.C. 1090 ) is amended— in subsection (a)(3)— in subparagraph (E), by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding the limitations on sharing data described in this paragraph, an institution of higher education may, with explicit written consent of the applicant, provide such information as is necessary to a scholarship granting organization designated by the applicant to assist the applicant in applying for and receiving financial assistance for the applicant’s education at that institution.
An organization that receives information pursuant to the preceding sentence shall not maintain, warehouse, sell, or otherwise store or share such information after it has been used to determine the additional aid available for such applicant and the organization shall destroy the information after such determination has been made. ; and by adding at the end the following: Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of the PROSPER Act, the Secretary shall make the electronic version of the forms under this paragraph available through a technology tool optimized for use on mobile devices.
Such technology tool shall, at minimum, enable applicants to— save data; and submit the FAFSA of such applicant to the Secretary through such tool. In developing and maintaining the electronic version of the forms under this paragraph and the technology tool for mobile devices under subparagraph (I), the Secretary shall conduct consumer testing with appropriate persons to ensure the forms and technology tool are designed to be easily usable and understandable by students and families.
Such consumer testing shall include— current and prospective college students, family members of such students, and other individuals with expertise in student financial assistance application processes; dependent students and independent students who meet the requirements under subsection
(b)or
(c)of section 479; and dependent students and independent students who do not meet the requirements under subsection
(b)or
(c)of section 479. ; and by amending subsection
(f)to read as follows: The Secretary shall— make every effort to allow applicants to utilize the current data retrieval tool to transfer, through a rigorous authentication process, data available from the Internal Revenue Service to reduce the amount of original data entry by applicants and strengthen the reliability of data used to calculate expected family contributions, including through the use of technology to— allow an applicant to automatically populate the electronic version of the forms under this paragraph with data available from the Internal Revenue Service; and direct an applicant to appropriate questions on such forms based on the applicant’s answers to previous questions; and allow single taxpayers, married taxpayers filing jointly, and married taxpayers filing separately to utilize the current data retrieval tool to its full capacity. The Secretary shall continue to examine whether data provided by the Internal Revenue Service can be used to generate an expected family contribution without additional action on the part of the student and taxpayer. Not less than once every year, the Secretary shall report to the authorizing committees on— the progress of the simplification efforts under this subsection; and the security of the data retrieval tool. . Section 483(a)(9)(C) ( 20 U.S.C. 1090(a)(9)(C) ) is amended by inserting , including through the tool described in section 485E(c) before the semicolon.
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