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Replaces paragraph (17) of 20 U.S.C. 1094(a) to require institutions or their assigned agents to collect and submit higher education data to the Commissioner for Education Statistics in accordance with section 132(l), the nonstudent-related IPEDS surveys, or other Federal institution of higher education data collection efforts designated by the Secretary, in a timely manner and to the satisfaction of the Secretary.
Repeals 20 U.S.C. 1015c (Section 134 of the Higher Education Act), which prohibited a federal database of personally identifiable student information.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced July 29, 2025 by Bill Cassidy · Last progress July 29, 2025
Creates a new, secure postsecondary student‑level data system operated by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to collect student enrollment, completion, cost, and outcome data, with strict privacy controls and public summary reporting. Repeals a named Higher Education Act provision, requires colleges (or their agents) to provide specified institutional data to the Commissioner for Education Statistics through IPEDS or other federal data collections, and directs Education Department leaders to build the system while reducing duplicative IPEDS reporting.
Requires timely data transmission standards, limits data sharing and use, and includes a four‑year delayed effective date for the new institutional reporting requirement; the text does not specify new funding, so implementation may impose compliance costs and planning responsibilities on NCES and institutions.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced in Senate