Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act passes Senate Committee

In a significant development for education abroad, this morning, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed the Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act (H.R. 1469; S. 991). The bill will now go on to the full Senate for a vote, before it is enacted into law.

The bill was first introduced in March 2007 in the House by the late Rep. Tom Lantos (D–Calif.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R–Fla.)