Equal Campus Access Act of 2026
Official title: To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure campus access at public institutions of higher education for religious groups.
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 730.
Equal Campus Access Act of 2025
This bill prohibits funding made available under the Higher Education Act of 1965 from being provided to any public institution of higher education (IHE) that denies certain campus rights to religious student organizations.
Specifically, the bill prohibits a public IHE from receiving these funds if it denies a religious student organization any right, benefit, or privilege that is otherwise afforded to other student organizations at the IHE because of the religious student organization's beliefs, practices, speech, leadership standards, or standards of conduct.
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- SCHAERR JAFFE LLP
- NATIONAL ASSN OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
- NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN
- GOODLATTE GROUP, LLC F.K.A. ROBERT GOODLATTE
- J STREET
- FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION (FIRE)
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Education, Dept of
- White House Office
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD)
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
- State, Dept of (DOS)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5505: Equal Campus Access Act of 2026. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5505/
"H.R. 5505: Equal Campus Access Act of 2026." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5505/.
H.R. 5505, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5505/.
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