US Senate Committees

• US Senate
• US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
• Senate Appropriations Committee
• Senate Finance Committee
• Senate Budget Committee
• Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education

US House of Representatives Committees

• US House of Representatives
• House Committee on Education and the Workforce
  The subcommittee with jurisdiction over postsecondary student assistance and Title IV of the Higher Education Act is the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness. Also relevant is the Subcommittee on Select Education.
• House Appropriations Committee
• House Budget Committee
• House Ways and Means Committee
• House Committee on Rules

Student Aid Advocacy and Policy Groups

• Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance (ACSFA)
• Commission on the Future of Higher Education
• Committee for Education Funding
• Student Aid Alliance
• Higher Education Washington, Inc.
• ExpectMore.gov (OMB Ratings of Federal Program Effectiveness)
  • Pell Grant
  • Perkins Loan
  • FFEL
  • Direct Lending
  • Federal Work-Study
  • SEOG
  • Americorps
  • Montgomery GI Bill
  • US Department of Education Student Aid Administration
  • TRIO Upward Bound
  • TRIO Talent Search
  • TRIO Student Support Services
  • LEAP
  • Head Start
  • Assets for Independence
  • Child Care Access Means Parents in School
  • College Assistance Migrant Program
  • Byrd Honors Scholarships
  • Javits Fellowships
  • GANN

See also FinAid's list of Student Aid Lobbying and Advocacy Groups.

Legislative Resources

• Thomas -- Legislative Information
• US Code: Cornell, Office of the Law Revision Counsel and GPO Access (old)
• Congressional Record
• US Case Law
• Case Law Highlights - Education
• OpenCRS (Copies of Congressional Research Service Reports)
• Justia: US Court of Appeals Cases & Options

Regulations

• Code of Federal Regulations (alternate - not up-to-date, new version)
• Federal Register (ED Copy) and Federal Register (Main Page)

Higher Education Act of 1965

Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 is the section that contains the student financial assistance provisions.

A complete and up-to-date copy of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, is not available from any source. However, the following sources are only a few years old. All of these sources are based on the US Code, which uses a different section numbering scheme than the original legislation.

• U.S. Government Printing Office (2010)
  • Higher Education Act of 1965 (pdf, text)
  • Higher Education Act of 1965, Title IV - Student Financial Assistance (pdf, text)
• Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute US Code Collection. The Higher Education Act of 1965 appears in Chapter 28 and Title IV in Subchapter IV. (This tends to be the most current version of the legislation.)
• uscode.house.gov (2008)
  • 20 USC (PDF, ASCII), from 2008
    The Higher Education Act of 1965 appears in Chapter 28. Title IV of the act is subchapter IV.