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H.R. 1766: College Transparency Act

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H.R. 1766: College Transparency Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-03-14 · Education · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-03-14 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Mitchell, Paul [R-MI-10] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

College Transparency Act

Plain summary

College Transparency Act This bill requires the National Center for Education Statistics to establish a secure and privacy-protected data system that contains information about postsecondary students. Specifically, the data system must evaluate student enrollment patterns, progression, completion, and postcollegiate outcomes, and higher education costs and financial aid; provide complete and customizable information for students and families making decisions about postsecondary education; reduce the requirements for reporting by institutions of higher education; and periodically match with other federal systems of data. The bill also establishes a postsecondary student data system advisory committee.

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Official text

College Transparency Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Mitchell, Paul [R-MI-10] · 234 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY), Josh Harder (D-CA), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Scott H. Peters (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Mark Takano (D-CA), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Jim Banks (R-IN), Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX), Neal P. Dunn (R-FL), Lori Trahan (D-MA), John R. Curtis (R-UT), Kevin Hern (R-OK), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Roger Marshall (R-KS), John R. Moolenaar (R-MI), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Ted Budd (R-NC), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Darin LaHood (R-IL), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Mike Rogers (R-AL), Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), Lois Frankel (D-FL) and 174 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr1766 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116