Sponsor
Thomas Suozzi
Representative · D-NY
Representative · D-NY
The bill clarifies which graduate medical schools are governed by specific statutory language—reducing administrative ambiguity—but that tailored classification could impose new conditions that raise costs for institutions and change students' eligibility or funding.
Graduate medical schools and the Department of Education: the bill creates a clearer, tailored statutory category and governance language for certain graduate medical schools, reducing ambiguity about which institutions fall under the rule and making administration and compliance expectations more explicit.
Graduate medical schools and their administrations: if the new tailored language adds conditions or restrictions, those schools could incur additional compliance costs or lose benefits they previously received under the general category.
Students at the affected graduate medical schools: changes in the revised statutory language could alter program eligibility, funding availability, or reporting requirements, potentially affecting students' access to aid or program participation.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Narrow the statute’s introductory definition so graduate medical schools described in a specific subclause are excluded from the general category and governed by a revised subclause.
Official title: To expand the definition of institution of higher education in the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to certain graduate medical schools located outside of the United States.
Introduced April 14, 2026 by Thomas Suozzi · Last progress April 14, 2026
Changes how “graduate medical school” is treated in the federal statute by removing those schools described in a specific subclause from the law’s general introductory category and placing them under a revised, separate clause. The result is a narrower catch‑all phrase so the particular graduate medical schools in clause (i)(I)(aa)(BB) are governed by the newly rewritten item (aa) rather than the general introductory phrase.