By Dervarics, Charles Newly signed law includes more than 60 initiatives, including those for single parent students, active duty military and disabled students.

By Greg Bolt, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Mar. 31--One wants to freeze tuition and fees, another just fees. One would put limits on part-timers. Two wade into the issue of "intellectual diversity." Another allows public safety officers to be armed.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation that would update the Pell Grant program for low income college students and take into account the growing role newer for-profit schools are playing in higher education.

College would become more affordable for specific groups under amendments to the Higher Education Act reauthorization bill being readied for House consideration this fall.