Title: The College Data Access Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
The College Data Access Act
This bill requires the Department of Education to maintain and annually update its online tool allowing users to compare institutions of higher education (i.e., College Scorecard).
It also requires an institution of higher education to prominently display, on the institution's website, the most recent version of the institution's College Scorecard.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3026 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3026

To require that a College Scorecard be maintained for each institution 
of higher education that participates in programs under title IV of the 
         Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 2019

 Mrs. Trahan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To require that a College Scorecard be maintained for each institution 
of higher education that participates in programs under title IV of the 
         Higher Education Act of 1965, 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 ``The College Data Access Act''.

SEC. 2. COLLEGE SCORECARD REQUIRED.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Education shall maintain and 
annually update the College Scorecard described in subsection (b).
    (b) College Scorecard Described.--The College Scorecard described 
in this subsection is the online tool maintained by the Department of 
Education as of the date of the enactment of this Act that allows 
users--
            (1) to view certain data relating to each institution of 
        higher education eligible to participate in programs under 
        title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et 
        seq.), including institution and program-level data on the net 
        costs of attendance, transfer and enrollment rates, graduation 
        rates, average student loan debt, threshold earnings, and 
        average earnings after graduation; and
            (2) to compare such institutions and programs based on such 
        data.

SEC. 3. DISPLAY OF COLLEGE SCORECARD BY INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER 
              EDUCATION.

    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:
            ``(30)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the 
        institution will prominently display, on the home page of the 
        institution's website, a link to the most recent version of the 
        institution's College Scorecard as maintained by the Department 
        of Education pursuant to section 2 of the College Data Access 
        Act, or any successor to such online tool.
            ``(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to an institution 
        that is a junior or community college.''.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the date that is 90 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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