[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4897 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4897
To require the Secretary of Education to complete a data analysis on
the impact of the proposed rule on gainful employment prior to issuing
a final rule on gainful employment.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 18, 2014
Mr. Salmon (for himself, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Roe of Tennessee,
Mrs. McCarthy of New York, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Kelly of
Pennsylvania, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Tonko, Mr. McKeon,
Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Hunter, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Garcia, Ms. Loretta
Sanchez of California, Mr. Sires, Mr. Murphy of Florida, Mr. Matheson,
Mr. Grayson, and Mr. Rokita) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce
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A BILL
To require the Secretary of Education to complete a data analysis on
the impact of the proposed rule on gainful employment prior to issuing
a final rule on gainful employment.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Transparency in Education Act''.
SEC. 2. DATA ANALYSIS REQUIREMENT FOR FINAL RULE ON GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of Education shall not issue a final
rule or otherwise implement the proposed rule published by the
Department of Education in the notice of proposed rulemaking in the
Federal Register on March 25, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 16426 et seq.), or any
other proposed rule that amends parts 600 or 668 of title 34, Code of
Federal Regulations, with respect to gainful employment programs, until
90 days after--
(1) the Secretary of Education publishes a complete data
analysis--
(A) on the impact of such proposed rule (including
the debt-to-earnings and programmatic cohort default
rate measures) on all postsecondary education programs
and students at all categories of institutions of
higher education that participate in a program under
title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1070 et seq.), including the impact on--
(i) students who receive Federal Pell
Grants under subpart 1 of part A of title IV of
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1070a);
(ii) minority students;
(iii) students over age 24;
(iv) students who are veterans;
(v) independent students; and
(vi) dependent students; and
(B) in a format similar to the Gainful Employment
2012 Informational Rate Calculations published by the
Department of Education; and
(2) the Comptroller General of the United States issues a
report that reviews such data analysis for data accuracy and
completeness.
(b) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
(1) Independent student.--The term ``independent student''
has the meaning given the term in section 480(d) of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087vv(d)).
(2) Institution of higher education.--The term
``institution of higher education'' has the meaning given the
term in section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 1002), except that the term does not include
institutions described in subparagraph (C) of section
102(a)(1).
(3) Veteran.--The term ``veteran'' has the meaning given
the term in section 480(c) of the Higher Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 1087vv(c)).
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