Ensuring Distance Education Act

Bill: 119-hr-1174
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Owens, Burgess [R-UT-4]
Introduced: 2025-02-10
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2025-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-02-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Ensuring Distance Education Act</strong></p><p>This bill treats revenue from distance education programs as nonfederal revenue for purposes of the 90/10 rule.</p><p>Generally, the 90/10 rule requires a for-profit institution of higher education (IHE) to derive at least 10% of its revenue from sources other than federal financial aid. Under current Department of Education regulations, for-profit IHEs are prohibited from including revenue from distance education programs (including hybrid distance education programs) as nonfederal revenue that meets this 10% requirement. The bill removes the prohibition and allows for distance education programs to be counted as nonfederal revenue for purposes of the rule.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1174 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 10, 2025 Mr. Owens introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce A BILL To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide that non-Federal revenue generated through certain distance education programs may be counted for purposes of the non-Federal revenue requirements applicable to proprietary institutions of higher education (commonly known as the 90/10 rule ).

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Distance Education Act . 2. Treatment of revenue from certain distance education programs for purposes of the 90/10 rule Section 487(d)(1)(B)(iii) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1094(d)(1)(B)(iii) ) is amended by inserting (which may include funds paid for a program offered in whole or in part through distance education regardless of the location from which such program is carried out) after under this title .