To expand the definition of institution of higher education in the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to certain graduat... in plain language

1: Graduate medical schools outside of the United States

This section would amend Section 102(a)(2)(A) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002(a)(2)(A)), which is part of the definition of 'institution of higher education' as it applies to graduate medical schools located outside the United States. First, it would narrow the reference to 'graduate medical school' in the introductory part of that provision so that the term no longer includes a graduate medical school described in item (aa)(BB) of clause (i)(I) (the clinical-training-program test described below). The provision does not say what happens to those schools instead; it only excludes them from this general reference. Second, it would rewrite item (aa) of clause (i)(I) of that provision to set out two tests. Under the first test, at least 60 percent of the people enrolled in the school and at least 60 percent of its graduates must not be persons described in section 484(a)(5) of the Act, measured for the year before a student seeks a loan under part D of title IV of the Act. Under the second test, the school must have or have had a clinical training program that, as of January 31, 2021, was approved by a State through a process that required an on-site visit to the school and its affiliated locations by that State or its authorized representatives, and the school must continue to operate a clinical training program in at least one State that approves it. Meeting either of these two tests is necessary but not enough by itself: as rewritten, item (aa) is joined by 'and' to a further item (bb) of clause (i)(I) that this section does not change and whose content is not part of this bill's text, so an additional requirement in that item (bb) also applies.