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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4546 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4546

     To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require certain 
 institutions of higher education to commit to, and provide notice of, 
                      tuition levels for students.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 2010

  Mr. Patrick J. Murphy of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mrs. Myrick) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL

 
     To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require certain 
 institutions of higher education to commit to, and provide notice of, 
                      tuition levels for students.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Truth in Tuition Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. COMMITMENT TO AND NOTICE OF TUITION LEVELS.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 487(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1094(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(30)(A) The institution will provide to each admitted 
        student considering an undergraduate or graduate program--
                    ``(i) a multi-year tuition and fee schedule; or
                    ``(ii) a single-year tuition and fee schedule, and 
                nonbinding, multi-year estimate of net costs after all 
                financial aid is awarded, assuming constant family and 
                student income, assets, and relevant circumstances.
            ``(B) Multi-year schedules and estimates required by 
        subparagraph (A)--
                    ``(i) may include a percentage or dollar increase 
                or decrease of any size the institution deems 
                appropriate from one year to the next; and
                    ``(ii) shall indicate, on a year-by-year basis, 
                costs for the normal duration of the relevant student's 
                undergraduate or graduate program.
            ``(C) Institutions that elect a single-year tuition and fee 
        schedule under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall include with each 
        multi-year estimate the average deviation, in percentage terms, 
        between previous year estimates and actual net costs for 
        students at their institution.
            ``(D) The Secretary shall waive the requirements of 
        subparagraph (A), and of the commitment made thereunder, if the 
        institution demonstrates to the Secretary that the requirements 
        of subparagraph (A) are not practicable because of the 
        occurrence of one or more events causing the institution severe 
        economic distress, dramatic reduction of State or Federal aid, 
        or any other circumstance the Secretary deems valid.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be 
effective on the date that is 120 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act.
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