Higher Education Transparency Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-2315
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2021-04-01
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Area studies and international education

Foreign language and bilingual programs

Higher education

Student aid and college costs
Latest action: action_date: 2021-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-04-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Higher Education Transparency Act of </b><strong>2021</strong></p> <p>This bill requires an institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student-aid programs to make available on its website the full content of any agreement between the IHE and a foreign source that provides language and cultural teaching resources and services to its students.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2315 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 1, 2021 Mr. Gosar (for himself, Mr. Norman , Mr. Brooks , Mr. Steube , and Mr. Fallon ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the disclosure of agreements between institutions of higher education and certain foreign sources, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Higher Education Transparency Act of 2021 . 2. Disclosure of agreements with certain foreign sources 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) The institution will make available, on a publicly accessible website of the institution, the full content of any agreement between the institution and a foreign source that provides, or intends to provide, language and cultural teaching resources and services to students of the institution. (B) For purposes of this paragraph, the term foreign source has the meaning given such term in section 117(h)(2). .