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§1073 Effects of adequate non-Federal programs

Title 20 › Chapter CHAPTER 28— - HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - STUDENT ASSISTANCE › Part Part B— - Federal Family Education Loan Program › § 1073

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must not give federal loan insurance certificates to lenders in a State when every eligible school or institution in that State can reasonably use a State or private nonprofit student loan insurance program that is covered by an approved agreement. The Secretary can still issue certificates in three cases: (1) when a student borrower cannot use the State or nonprofit program because of where the student lives; (2) when a lender’s borrowers live in places so that no single State or nonprofit program would cover most of the loans the lender plans to make; or (3) when the State guaranty agency approves issuing a certificate for a loan the lender already had insured and that loan is not yet repaid.

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Title 20, §1073

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(a)Except as provided in subsection (b), the Secretary shall not issue certificates of insurance under section 1079 of this title to lenders in a State if the Secretary determines that every eligible institution has reasonable access in that State to a State or private nonprofit student loan insurance program which is covered by an agreement under section 1078(b) of this title.
(b)The Secretary may issue certificates of insurance under section 1079 of this title to a lender in a State—
(1)for insurance of a loan made to a student borrower who does not, by reason of the borrower’s residence, have access to loan insurance under the loan insurance program of such State (or under any private nonprofit loan insurance program which has received an advance under section 1072 of this title for the benefit of students in such State);
(2)for insurance of all the loans made to student borrowers by a lender who satisfies the Secretary that, by reason of the residence of such borrowers, such lender will not have access to any single State or nonprofit private loan insurance program which will insure substantially all of the loans such lender intends to make to such student borrowers; or
(3)under such circumstances as may be approved by the guaranty agency in such State, for the insurance of a loan to a borrower for whom such lender previously was issued such a certificate if the loan covered by such certificate is not yet repaid.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 1073, Pub. L. 89–329, title IV, § 423, Nov. 8, 1965, 79 Stat. 1237; Pub. L. 90–575, title I, § 119(a), Oct. 16, 1968, 82 Stat. 1026; Pub. L. 94–482, title I, § 127(a), Oct. 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 2103; Pub. L. 95–43, § 1(a)(14), June 15, 1977, 91 Stat. 214; Pub. L. 96–374, title XIII, § 1391(a)(1), Oct. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 1503, limited participation in Federal loan insurance programs, prior to the general revision of this part by Pub. L. 99–498.

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20 U.S.C. § 1073

Title 20Education

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Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73