Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act of 2019

I 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 103 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish fair and consistent eligibility requirements for graduate medical schools operating outside the United States and Canada. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 3, 2019 Mr. BURGESS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish fair and consistent eligibility requirements for graduate medical schools operating outside the United States and Canada. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Foreign Medical School 4 Accountability Fairness Act of 2019’’. 5 SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 6 The purpose of this Act is to establish consistent eli- 7 gibility requirements for graduate medical schools oper- 8 VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:29 Jan 11, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H103.IH H103 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •HR 103 IH ating outside of the United States and Canada in order 1 to increase accountability and protect American students 2 and taxpayer dollars. 3 SEC. 3. REPEAL GRANDFATHER PROVISIONS. 4 Section 102(a)(2) of the Higher Education Act of 5 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002(a)(2)) is amended— 6 (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking clause (i) 7 and inserting the following: 8 ‘‘(i) in the case of a graduate medical 9 school located outside the United States— 10 ‘‘(I) at least 60 percent of those 11 enrolled in, and at least 60 percent of 12 the graduates of, the graduate med- 13 ical school outside the United States 14 were not persons described in section 15 484(a)(5) in the year preceding the 16 year for which a student is seeking a 17 loan under part D of title IV; and 18 ‘‘(II) at least 75 percent of the 19 individuals who were students or 20 graduates of the graduate medical 21 school outside the United States or 22 Canada (both nationals of the United 23 States and others) taking the exami- 24 nations administered by the Edu- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:29 Jan 11, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H103.IH H103 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 3 •HR 103 IH cational Commission for Foreign Med- 1 ical Graduates received a passing 2 score in the year preceding the year 3 for which a student is seeking a loan 4 under part D of title IV;’’; and 5 (2) in subparagraph (B)(iii), by adding at the 6 end the following: 7 ‘‘(V) EXPIRATION OF AUTHOR- 8 ITY.—The authority of a graduate 9 medical school described in subclause 10 (I) to qualify for participation in the 11 loan programs under part D of title 12 IV pursuant to this clause shall expire 13 beginning on the first July 1 following 14 the date of enactment of the Foreign 15 Medical School Accountability Fair- 16 ness Act of 2019.’’. 17 SEC. 4. LOSS OF ELIGIBILITY. 18 If a graduate medical school loses eligibility to par- 19 ticipate in the loan programs under part D of title IV of 20 the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087a et 21 seq.) due to the enactment of the amendments made by 22 section 3, then a student enrolled at such graduate med- 23 ical school on or before the date of enactment of this Act 24 may, notwithstanding such loss of eligibility, continue to 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:29 Jan 11, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H103.IH H103 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 4 •HR 103 IH be eligible to receive a loan under such part D while at- 1 tending such graduate medical school in which the student 2 was enrolled upon the date of enactment of this Act, sub- 3 ject to the student continuing to meet all applicable re- 4 quirements for satisfactory academic progress, until the 5 earliest of— 6 (1) withdrawal by the student from the grad- 7 uate medical school; 8 (2) completion of the program of study by the 9 student at the graduate medical school; or 10 (3) the fourth June 30 after such loss of eligi- 11 bility. 12 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:29 Jan 11, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H103.IH H103 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS