Student Data Counts Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3901
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2019-07-23
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Census and government statistics

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Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-07-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Student Data Counts Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill requires the National Center for Education Statistics to collect, analyze, cross-tabulate, and report on information from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) or a successor system that is disaggregated by race. Such IPEDS data must include those racial groups specified in the American Community Survey of the Bureau of the Census. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3901 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 23, 2019 Ms. Judy Chu of California (for herself, Mr. Khanna , Mr. Case , Mr. Ted Lieu of California , and Mr. Takano ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Education Sciences and Reform Act of 2002 to include racial subgroups in IPEDS data, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Student Data Counts Act of 2019 . 2. Inclusion of racial subgroups in IPEDS data Section 153(a)(3) of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 ( 20 U.S.C. 9543(a)(3) ) is amended— (1) by striking feasible, information and inserting the following: feasible— (A) information ; (2) by inserting and after the semicolon; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (B) information from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Survey or a successor system (whichever includes the most recent data), that is disaggregated by race in a manner that captures all the racial groups specified in the American Community Survey of the United States Census Bureau; .