YourVoice.Now Summary
Criminal Justice & Due ProcessCivil LibertiesAverage Household ImpactStudents convicted of rioting or assaulting an officer would lose all federal aid — past grants convert to loans with back interest.
Criminal Justice & Due Process
- Collateral consequences of conviction — All federal student aid ends for covered offenses
- Retroactive repayment — Grants already received convert to interest-bearing loans
- Loan relief eligibility — Forgiveness, cancellation, and discharge barred for these loans
Civil Liberties
- Protest-related exposure — Rioting definition reaches organizing, promoting, and encouraging
Average Household Impact
- Federal student aid access — Ends for students with a covered conviction
The details
Students convicted of assaulting a police officer, or of rioting, would lose all federal student aid. That covers grants, loans, and work-study money under the Higher Education Act. The cutoff starts with the first award year beginning after enactment. Grants the student already received for their current program would convert to unsubsidized federal loans. Interest would accrue from the date of the original grant award. Those loans could never be forgiven, cancelled, discharged, or reduced under any program or administrative action. The bill's definition of rioting is broad. It reaches inciting, organizing, or promoting a riot. It also covers encouraging or participating in one, committing violence to further it, or aiding and abetting any of those acts.
Congressional Summary
Freeze Aid For Student Assaulters Act of 2025 or the FAFSA Act of 2025This bill prohibits an individual who is convicted of a criminal offense of assault against a police officer or rioting (e.g., inciting a riot or participating in a riot) from receiving student federal financial assistance. Specifically, an individual who is convicted of such an offense shall not be eligible to receive any grant, loan, or work assistance under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). (Title IV financial assistance is the largest source of federal aid to postsecondary students.)Additionally, any grant previously awarded to such an individual must be treated as a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan that is subject to repayment. Further, interest shall accrue on the converted loan from the date of the original grant award. Converted loans may not be eligible for any loan forgiveness, cancellation, discharge, or reduction programs under the HEA, any other provision of law, or any administrative action or program.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-03-21
- Date Added
- 2026-08-05
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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