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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 4430 

To direct the Secretary of Education to assign a unique numeric identifier 

to institutions of higher education to facilitate data collection and reporting, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 

Mrs. TRAHAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Education and Labor 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of Education to assign a unique 

numeric identifier to institutions of higher education to 

facilitate data collection and reporting, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Data in Higher 

5 Education Act of 2019’’. 

6 SEC. 2. UNIVERSAL UNIQUE NUMERIC DATA IDENTIFIER. 

7 (a) ASSIGNMENT OF UNIQUE NUMERIC IDENTIFIER

8 REQUIRED.—Not later than 18 months after the date of 


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1 the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Education 

2 shall assign a unique numeric identifier to at least each 

3 campus of each institution of higher education that par4 ticipates in a program under title IV of the Higher Edu5 cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.) to be used 

6 for reporting and disaggregating data for the purposes of 

7 the following: 

8 (1) Surveys conducted as a part of the Inte9 grated Postsecondary Education Data System 

10 (IPEDS) or any other Federal postsecondary insti11 tution data collection effort, as completed in accord12 ance with section 487(a)(17) of the Higher Edu13 cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1094(a)(17)). 

14 (2) Reports required to be filed under section 

15 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 

16 U.S.C. 1092(f)). 

17 (3) The electronic exchange of data under sec18 tion 485B of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 

19 U.S.C. 1092b). 

20 (4) Determinations under section 496 of the 

21 Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1099b). 

22 (5) Reports filed on the College Navigator 

23 website (as defined in section 132 of the Higher 

24 Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1015a)). 


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1 (6) Reports filed on the College Scorecard 

2 website of the Department of Education (or any suc3 cessor website). 

4 (7) To the extent determined to be appropriate 

5 by the Secretary, any other data systems of the De6 partment of Education that include information on 

7 institutions of higher education. 

8 (b) CONSIDERATIONS.—In carrying out subsection 

9 (a), the Secretary of Education shall— 

10 (1) consider the ability to use the unique nu11 meric identifier assigned under such subsection to— 

12 (A) disaggregate institutions of higher edu13 cation by corporate ownership; 

14 (B) identify an institution of higher edu15 cation with more than one campus; and 

16 (C) in the case of institutions of higher 

17 education described in subparagraph (B), dis18 tinguish between a campus with a specific loca19 tion and a distance education program; 

20 (2) account for interactions of the unique nu21 meric identifier with requirements under title IV of 

22 the Higher Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.), 

23 including by preventing institutional attempts to 

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1 meric identifiers associated with the campuses of the 

2 institution; 

3 (3) to the extent practicable, minimize the pa4 perwork burden on institutions of higher education; 

5 (4) create and make public a crosswalk indi6 cating changes in the unique numeric identifiers as7 signed by the Secretary to each campus under sub8 section (a) and the numeric identifiers used by the 

9 Department of Education prior to the date on which 

10 the Secretary assigns each campus a unique numeric 

11 identifier; and 

12 (5) annually create and make public an updated 

13 crosswalk indicating changes in unique numeric 

14 identifiers assigned to campuses, including changes 

15 that result from the establishment of new locations, 

16 the closing of campuses, and changes in ownership 

17 and affiliation. 

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