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H.R. 4479 115th Congress House

Student Right to Know Before You Go Act of 2017

Official title: To establish a new higher education data system to allow for more accurate, complete, and secure data on student retention, graduation, and earnings outcomes, … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To establish a new higher education data system to allow for more accurate, complete, and secure data on student retention, graduation, and earnings outcomes, at all levels of postsecondary enrollment, and for other purposes.

Introduced: November 29, 2017 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 7, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Nov 29, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Nov 29, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Nov 29, 2017
Introduced in House
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 Latest action December 7, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Student Right to Know Before You Go Act of 2017

This bill requires the National Center for Education Statistics to establish and maintain a new higher education data system. The Center must use the system to calculate student education, debt-related, and earning metrics (e.g., student graduation rates, transfer rates, rates of continuation to subsequent levels of education, dropout rates, loan debt amounts, loan repayment rates, and debt-to-earnings ratios) for each institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student aid programs. The metrics must be disaggregated and separately provided on the basis of specified categories.

The system must meet requirements for minimizing privacy and security risks.

The bill provides for the transition from the existing Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to the new higher education data system.

The Department of Education (ED) must publish the metrics and post the metrics on its website. Within five years, an IHE that participates in federal student aid programs must display links on its website to ED's website that provides metrics data.

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Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 2 Republican 1
Curbelo, Carlos
· Jul 31, 2018
Rooney, Thomas
· Jan 10, 2018
 D
Carson, André
Indiana · Nov 29, 2017
 R
Fitzpatrick, Brian K.
Pennsylvania · Nov 29, 2017
 D
Peters, Scott H.
California · Nov 29, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4479: Student Right to Know Before You Go Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4479/
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