To require certain protections for student loan borrowers, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Enhances protections for student loan borrowers through comprehensive reforms to federal and private education loans. Requires lenders to provide clearer disclosures, establishes loan rehabilitation pathways that remove defaults from credit reports, mandates cancellation of private loans upon death or permanent disability, and creates a centralized portal for federal loan servicing.
Who Benefits and How
Student loan borrowers gain improved disclosures about repayment options, servicemember benefits, and alternative repayment plans. Borrowers who rehabilitate defaulted loans can have negative credit history removed. Disabled borrowers and estates of deceased borrowers are protected through mandatory loan cancellation. Veterans and servicemembers receive dedicated liaisons and protections against credit discrimination. Co-borrowers gain clearer release requirements.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Private education lenders must comply with extensive new disclosure requirements, offer loan rehabilitation programs, cancel loans upon borrower death or disability, and cannot accelerate loans except for payment default. Loan servicers must designate repayment specialists and servicemember liaisons. The Department of Education must establish a centralized borrower portal within 2 years.
Key Provisions
- Requires disclosure of servicemember benefits and repayment specialist contact information before loans enter repayment
- Mandates removal of default from credit history upon loan rehabilitation or full repayment
- Private loans must be cancelled upon borrower death, permanent disability, or VA determination of unemployability
- Prohibits acceleration clauses except for payment default; requires clear co-borrower release terms
- Department of Education must create centralized portal for federal loan account information and payments
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Strengthens consumer protections for student loan borrowers, including disclosure requirements, loan rehabilitation options, co-borrower release provisions, and a centralized point of access for federal loan servicing
Key Policy Areas
Consumer Finance, Education, Veterans Affairs
Primary Purpose
Strengthens consumer protections for student loan borrowers, including disclosure requirements, loan rehabilitation options, co-borrower release provisions, and a centralized point of access for federal loan servicing
Policy Domains
Full Bill - Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Student loan borrowers
- Veterans and servicemembers with student loans
- Borrowers in default seeking rehabilitation
- Co-borrowers on private education loans
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Private education lenders
- Student loan servicers
- Department of Education
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Durbin (for himself, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Reed, Ms. Smith, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
All postsecondary education loan borrowers, Borrowers rehabilitating private student loans, Borrowers who repay defaulted federal loans
Federal loan servicers, Federal loan servicers and guaranty agencies, Federal student loan servicers
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, Department of Education, Federal banking agencies
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_director"
- → Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Education
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
A borrower of a postsecondary education loan
Private education loans under TILA, loans under HEA title IV parts B, D, or E, and loans under Public Health Service Act titles VII or VIII
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