Caps required payments at no more than 20 percent of a student’s income and ensures no payments are owed when income falls below a minimum affordability threshold.
Cap required payments on outcomes-based financing products at no more than 20 percent of student income and require no payments below a minimum affordability threshold.
Occurrences
Evidence
The bill text proposed federal rules for income-share agreements, including a cap preventing total income-share rates from exceeding 20 percent and borrower protections tied to a minimum income threshold before payments are owed.
Congress.gov records S.2114 as introduced in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Finance, with no recorded enactment action.
Young’s Senate office announced bipartisan introduction of legislation to regulate income-share agreements and protect students using those financing products.
The CFPB took enforcement action involving income-share agreements and treated the products as consumer credit/private education loans subject to federal consumer-finance requirements.
A current Congress.gov legislation search did not identify a newly enacted federal law in the June 7, 2026 to July 6, 2026 lookback window delivering the 20 percent cap and no-payment threshold for outcomes-based student financing products.
Assessments
Young materially advanced the promised policy by sponsoring S.2114, the ISA Student Protection Act of 2019, which included both a 20 percent income-share cap and a no-payment obligation below a low-income threshold. But the bill was only introduced and referred to the Senate Finance Committee, with no enactment, and later CFPB enforcement activity addressed ISA consumer-protection issues without creating the promised federal cap and affordability threshold. Because the substantive outcome was not delivered despite a serious legislative attempt, this is best scored as not fulfilled with effort credit.