Title: Reverse Transfer Efficiency Act of 2017
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Reverse Transfer Efficiency Act of 2017
This bill amends the General Education Provisions Act to allow the release of a transfer student's educational records from an institution of postsecondary education where a student earned credit for coursework to an institution of postsecondary education where the student was previously enrolled in order to apply the student's coursework and credits toward completion of a recognized postsecondary credential, such as an associate's degree. (In the case of a student who does not complete a bachelor's degree after transferring to a four-year institution from a two-year institution, the credits earned at the four-year institution may be applied towards a recognized postsecondary credential at the two-year institution.) Specifically, the bill allows the Department of Education to provide funding to an institution of postsecondary education that releases a student's records of postsecondary coursework and credits without the consent of the student or the student's parents if the student provides written consent prior to receiving the credential.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3774 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3774

 To amend the General Education Provisions Act to allow the release of 
education records to facilitate the award of a recognized postsecondary 
                              credential.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 14, 2017

Mr. Messer (for himself, Mr. Polis, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Garrett, and Mr. 
 Perlmutter) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the General Education Provisions Act to allow the release of 
education records to facilitate the award of a recognized postsecondary 
                              credential.

    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 ``Reverse Transfer Efficiency Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. RELEASE OF EDUCATION RECORDS TO FACILITATE THE AWARD OF A 
              RECOGNIZED POSTSECONDARY CREDENTIAL.

    Section 444(b) of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 
1232g(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (K)(ii), by striking ``; and'' 
                and inserting a semicolon; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (L), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (L) the following:
            ``(M) an institution of postsecondary education in which 
        the student was previously enrolled, to which records of 
        postsecondary coursework and credits are sent for the purpose 
        of applying such coursework and credits toward completion of a 
        recognized postsecondary credential (as that term is defined in 
        section 3 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
        U.S.C. 3102)), upon condition that the student provides written 
        consent prior to receiving such credential.''.
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