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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1090 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require certain institutions |
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| 6 | 6 | | of higher education to provide notice of tuition levels for students. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY6, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. P |
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| 10 | 10 | | EREZ(for herself, Mr. PETERS, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Ms. |
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| 11 | 11 | | N |
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| 12 | 12 | | ORTON, and Ms. SCHAKOWSKY) introduced the following bill; which was |
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| 13 | 13 | | referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require |
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| 16 | 16 | | certain institutions of higher education to provide notice |
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| 17 | 17 | | of tuition levels for students. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Truth in Tuition Act 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEC. 2. NOTICE OF TUITION LEVELS. 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) A |
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| 25 | 25 | | MENDMENT.—Section 487(a) of the Higher 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1094(a)) is amended 8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 9 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘(30)(A) The institution will provide to each 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | student admitted to an undergraduate or graduate 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | program— 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ‘‘(i) a multi-year tuition and fee schedule; 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | or 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(ii) a single-year tuition and fee schedule, 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | and a nonbinding, multi-year estimate of net 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | costs after all financial aid is awarded, assum-8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | ing constant family and student income, assets, 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | and relevant circumstances. 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ‘‘(B) Multi-year schedules and estimates re-11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | quired by subparagraph (A)— 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ‘‘(i) may include a percentage or dollar in-13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | crease or decrease of any size the institution de-14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | termines to be appropriate from one year to the 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | next; and 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(ii) shall indicate, on a year-by-year basis, 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | costs for the normal duration of such student’s 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | undergraduate or graduate program. 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ‘‘(C) Institutions that elect a single-year tuition 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | and fee schedule under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | include with each multi-year estimate provided under 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | such subparagraph the average deviation, in percent-23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | age terms, between previous year estimates and ac-24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | tual net costs for students at their institution. 25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘(D) The Secretary shall waive the require-1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | ments of subparagraph (A) if the institution dem-2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | onstrates to the Secretary that the requirements of 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | subparagraph (A) are not practicable because of the 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | occurrence of one or more events causing the institu-5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | tion severe economic distress, dramatic reduction of 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | State or Federal aid, or any other circumstance de-7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | termined to be appropriate by the Secretary.’’. 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (b) E |
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| 68 | 68 | | FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendment made by 9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | subsection (a) shall be effective on the date that is 120 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | days after the date of enactment of this Act. 11 |
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