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 118 STAT. 265 PUBLIC LAW 108–199—JAN. 23, 2004 including parents and students, high school guidance coun selors, financial aid and other campus administrators, appro priate State administrators, administrators of intervention and outreach programs, and appropriate officials from the Depart ment of Education. (2) FORMS DESIGN EXPERT.—With the goal of making signifi cant changes to the form to make the questions more easily understandable, the Advisory Committee shall consult a forms design expert to ensure that its recommendations for revision of the application form would assist in making the form easily readable and understood by parents, students, and other mem bers of the public. (3) CONGRESSIONAL CONSULTATION.—The Advisory Com mittee shall consult on a regular basis with the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representa tives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate in carrying out the feasibility study required by this subsection. (4) DEPARTMENTAL CONSULTATION.—The Secretary of Edu cation shall provide such assistance to the Advisory Committee as is requested and practicable in conducting the study required by this subsection. (e) REPORTS.— (1) INTERIM REPORT.—The Advisory Committee shall, not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, prepare and submit an interim report containing any such legislative changes as the Advisory Committee recommends to reform and simplify the needs analysis under part F of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087kk et seq.) and forms and other requirements under such title to the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, and the Secretary of Education. (2) FINAL REPORT.—The Advisory Committee shall, not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, prepare and submit a full final report on the study, including recommendations for regulatory and administrative changes required by this section, to the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, and the Secretary of Education. (f) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary of Education shall consult with the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and shall subsequently initiate a redesign of the form required by section 483 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1090). Such redesign shall include the testing of alternative simplified versions of the free Federal form. The Secretary shall keep the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate fully and currently informed on the progress of these efforts. (g) POSTPONEMENT OF TAX TABLE UPDATE PENDING REPORT AND IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary of Education shall not imple ment or enforce for the award year 2004–2005 the annual update to the allowances for State and other taxes in the tables used Deadlines.

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