Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act of 2026

(a) Table of contents. The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Table of contents; references. Sec. 4. Doubling Federal Pell Grants and providing all Federal Pell Grants through mandatory funding. Sec. 5. Providing increased Federal Pell Grants and other assistance for recipients of means-tested benefits. Sec. 6. Federal aid eligibility for dreamer students. Sec. 7. Restoring the total semesters of Federal Pell Grant eligibility. Sec. 8. Reducing financial aid penalties from satisfactory academic progress determinations. Sec. 9. Restoring Pell Grant eligibility for certain students with scholarships. Sec. 10. Conforming amendments. Sec. 11. Effective date.

(b) References. Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.).