NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE STORES

Concerns with the potential ramifications of additional changes in overtime regulations for exempted workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act. U.S. Department of Labor Notice of Proposed Rule on Overtime Regulations. -Final overtime rule, 89-FR-32842 (all provisions -H.R. 7367. The Overtime Pay Flexibility Act (all provisions).

FY2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations. Pell Grants, Work Study, FIPSE -Open Textbook Pilot grant program. -H.R. 9029 - Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 -Pell Grants, Work Study, FIPSE -Open Textbook Pilot grant program. -Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations. Pell Grants, Work Study, FIPSE -Open Textbook Pilot grant program.

Final rule -Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities, U.S. Department of Justice. (Provisions addressing improving accessibility and timely access of course materials for college students with disabilities). -Need for U.S. Department of Education to support implementation of the final rule through regulation and grant making authority.

Higher Education Tax Proposals to Support Students and Institutions. -H.R. 3000, The Tax Free Pell Grant Act - Excludes from gross income, for income tax purposes, any amount received as a federal Pell Grant. It also expands the definition of qualified tuition and related expenses under the American Opportunity and Lifetime Learning tax credit to include computer or peripheral equipment (up to a maximum of $1,000), child and dependent care expenses, and course materials. (all provisions).

Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (PL 89-329) as amended by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, provisions related to cost of attendance, settling ledger accounts, books and supplies, accessibility for students with disabilities, work study, Pell grants. -HEA Sec 133 information disclosure, Sec 443 and Sec 462 financial aid, Sec 472 cost of attendance. -S. 978 and H.R. 1811, Affordable College Textbook Act of 2023 (all provisions). -H.R. 5933, The Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act as it relates to purchase orders of goods (Section 2) -U.S. Department of Education Third Party Servicer Regulatory Guidance -U.S. Department of Educations negotiated rulemaking draft proposal to revise current federal cash management regulations to restrict institutions ability to ensure students receive low cost course materials, supplies, and equipment through affordable access bulk discount programs.