Title: Higher Education and Employment Transparency Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Higher Education and Employment Transparency Act
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Department of Education (ED) to make publicly available on the College Navigator website certain employment and earnings information provided by schools.

IHEs must also disseminate to prospective and enrolled students information about the median earnings of their former students, disaggregated by program of study and by completion status of such students, based on data from federal or state agencies.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4048 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4048

 To require institutions of higher education to provide students with 
      statistical employment information, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 12, 2017

Mr. Carson of Indiana introduced the following bill; which was referred 
            to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require institutions of higher education to provide students with 
      statistical employment information, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Higher Education and Employment 
Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS.

    (a) Requirements for the Secretary of Education.--Section 132(i)(1) 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1015a(i)(1)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (V), by adding at the end the 
        following:
                            ``(v) Employment and earnings information 
                        required to be provided by the institution 
                        under section 485(a)(1)(R) with respect to 
                        graduates of the institution's degree or 
                        certificate programs.'';
            (2) by amending subparagraph (W) to read as follows:
                    ``(W) A link to the Occupational Outlook Handbook 
                section of the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, 
                which includes regional data on starting salaries in 
                all major occupations from the Occupational Employment 
                Statistics program.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(AA) A link to a website that provides 
                information, based on data from Federal or State 
                agencies (including the Social Security Administration, 
                the Bureau of the Census, or State agencies (designated 
                or authorized under section 4 of the Wagner-Peyser Act 
                (29 U.S.C. 49c)), on the employment and earnings of 
                former students, disaggregated by institution and by 
                completion status of such students.''.
    (b) Requirements for Institutions of Higher Education.--
            (1) Institutional and financial assistance information for 
        students.--Section 485(a)(1)(R) of such Act (20 U.S.C. 
        1092(a)(1)(R)) is amended to read as follows:
                    ``(R) the placement in employment of, and median 
                earnings of former students of the institution, 
                disaggregated by program of study and by completion 
                status of such students, based on data from Federal or 
                State agencies (including the Social Security 
                Administration, Bureau of the Census, or State agencies 
                (designated or authorized under section 4 of the 
                Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49c));''.
            (2) Program participation agreements.--Section 487(a) of 
        such Act (20 U.S.C. 1094(a)) is amended by adding at the end 
        the following new paragraph:
            ``(30) The institution will provide a prominent link on the 
        institution's website to the pages or information required by 
        subparagraphs (V)(v), (W), and (AA) of section 132(i)(1).''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this Act shall be 
effective beginning on July 1, 2019.
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