"Republican delegate from Virginia Beach is proposing a bill that would allow some community college students to get fully forgivable loans — but only in certain fields facing shortages.

The bill, HB 1439, was pre-filed by Timothy Anderson (R-Virginia Beach) ahead of the General Assembly’s January session.

Although student loan forgiveness is mostly associated with Democrats, especially in the wake of President Biden’s stalled push for broad loan forgiveness, Anderson’s proposal charts out a narrower version that would set up a forgiveness program for some future community college loans.

In essence, it would require all of the commonwealth’s community college systems to set up programs offering forgivable loans covering “the full cost of tuition, mandatory fees, and required textbooks,'" reports WRIC.

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