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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · S. 3616 (Introduced in Senate) — To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve the financial aid process for homeless and foster care youth. · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Definitions

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Section 103 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1003 ) is amended— by redesignating paragraph (10), paragraphs
(11)through (22), and paragraphs
(23)through (24), as paragraph (11), paragraphs
(13)through (25), and paragraphs
(26)through (27), respectively; by inserting after paragraph
(9)the following: The term foster care youth — means children and youth whose care and placement are the responsibility of the State or Tribal agency that administers a State or Tribal plan under part B or E of title IV of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 621 et seq. and 670 et seq.), without regard to whether foster care maintenance payments are made under section 472 of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 672 ) on behalf of such children and youth; and includes individuals who were age 13 or older when their care and placement were the responsibility of a State or Tribal agency that administered a State or Tribal plan under part B or E of title IV of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 621 et seq. and 670 et seq.) and who are no longer under the care and responsibility of such a State or Tribal agency, without regard to any such individual’s subsequent adoption, guardianship arrangement, or other form of permanency outcome. ; by inserting after paragraph (11), as redesignated by paragraph (1), the following: The term homeless youth has the meaning given the term homeless children and youths in section 725 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11434a ). ; and by inserting after paragraph (24), as redesignated by paragraph (1), the following: The terms unaccompanied and unaccompanied youth have the meaning given the term unaccompanied youth in section 725 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11434a ). . Section 480 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended by section 702(l)(2) of the FAFSA Simplification Act (title VII of division FF of Public Law 116–260 ), is amended by striking subsections
(m)and (n).
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