Title: Truth in Tuition Act of 2017
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Truth in Tuition Act of 2017
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand notification requirements for an institution of higher education (IHE) to participate in federal student aid programs. Specifically, the bill requires an IHE to provide to a student: (1) a multi-year tuition and fee schedule; or (2) a single-year tuition and fee schedule and a nonbinding, multi-year estimate of net costs after financial aid is awarded. The bill authorizes the Department of Education to waive this requirement under certain circumstances.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4715 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4715

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 21, 2017

  Mr. Cartwright (for himself, Mr. Roskam, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. 
 Delaney, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Peters, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Engel, Mr. Cummings, 
Mr. Connolly, and Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require certain 
 institutions of higher education to 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 2017''.

SEC. 2. 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 student 
        admitted to an undergraduate or graduate program--
                    ``(i) a multi-year tuition and fee schedule; or
                    ``(ii) a single-year tuition and fee schedule, and 
                a 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 determines to 
                be appropriate from one year to the next; and
                    ``(ii) shall indicate, on a year-by-year basis, 
                costs for the normal duration of such 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 provided under such subparagraph 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) 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 
        determined to be appropriate by the Secretary.''.
    (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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