Title: Higher Education Funds Integrity Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Higher Education Funds Integrity Act
This bill prohibits postsecondary educational institutions from using federal funds to pay any person for (1) influencing Congress with respect to federal contracts, grants, loans, or cooperative agreements; or (2) lobbying Congress to secure funding through an earmark.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4977 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4977

   To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit the use of 
   Federal funds to be used to pay an individual for influencing or 
attempting to influence an officer of employer of any agency, Member of 
   Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a 
              Member of Congress, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 1, 2019

 Mr. Phillips 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 prohibit the use of 
   Federal funds to be used to pay an individual for influencing or 
attempting to influence an officer of employer of any agency, Member of 
   Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a 
              Member of Congress, 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 Funds Integrity 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CERTIFICATION REGARDING THE USE OF CERTAIN FEDERAL FUNDS.

    (a) In General.--Part B of title I of the Higher Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1011 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``SEC. 129. CERTIFICATION REGARDING THE USE OF CERTAIN FEDERAL FUNDS.

    ``(a) Prohibition.--No Federal funds received under this Act by an 
institution of higher education or other postsecondary educational 
institution may be used to pay any person for influencing or attempting 
to influence an officer or employee of any agency, a Member of 
Congress, an officer or employee of Congress, or an employee of a 
Member of Congress in connection with any Federal action described in 
subsection (b).
    ``(b) Applicability.--The prohibition in subsection (a) applies 
with respect to the following Federal actions:
            ``(1) The awarding of any Federal contract.
            ``(2) The making of any Federal grant.
            ``(3) The making of any Federal loan.
            ``(4) The entering into of any Federal cooperative 
        agreement.
            ``(5) The extension, continuation, renewal, amendment, or 
        modification of any Federal contract, grant, loan, or 
        cooperative agreement.
    ``(c) Lobbying and Earmarks.--No Federal student aid funding under 
this Act may be used to hire a registered lobbyist or pay any person or 
entity for securing an earmark.
    ``(d) Certification.--Each institution of higher education or other 
postsecondary educational institution receiving Federal funding under 
this Act, as a condition for receiving such funding, shall annually 
certify to the Secretary that the requirements of subsections (a) 
through (c) have been met.
    ``(e) Actions To Implement and Enforce.--The Secretary shall take 
such actions as are necessary to ensure that the provisions of this 
section are implemented and enforced.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 119 of the Higher Education 
Opportunity Act (20 U.S.C. 1011m) is repealed.
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