Truth in Tuition Act of 2013 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) to provide each student admitted to an undergraduate or graduate program: (1) a multi-year tuition and fee schedule; or (2) a single-year tuition and fee schedule, and a nonbinding, multi-year estimate of net costs after all financial aid is awarded.
Requires IHEs that choose the second option to include with each multi-year estimate the average deviation, in percentage terms, between previous year estimates and actual net costs for their students.
Directs the Secretary of Education to waive the application of these requirements to IHEs for which the requirements are not practicable due to events that cause them severe economic distress, a dramatic reduction in state or federal aid, or any other circumstance the Secretary determines to be appropriate.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2020 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2020
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require certain
institutions of higher education to provide notice of tuition levels
for students.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 16, 2013
Mr. Cartwright (for himself and Mr. Roskam) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the
Workforce
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A BILL
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require certain
institutions of higher education to provide notice of tuition levels
for students.
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 ``Truth in Tuition Act of 2013''.
SEC. 2. NOTICE OF TUITION LEVELS.
(a) Amendment.--Section 487(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 1094(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
``(30)(A) The institution will provide to each student
admitted to an undergraduate or graduate program--
``(i) a multi-year tuition and fee schedule; or
``(ii) a single-year tuition and fee schedule, and
a nonbinding, multi-year estimate of net costs after
all financial aid is awarded, assuming constant family
and student income, assets, and relevant circumstances.
``(B) Multi-year schedules and estimates required by
subparagraph (A)--
``(i) may include a percentage or dollar increase
or decrease of any size the institution determines to
be appropriate from one year to the next; and
``(ii) shall indicate, on a year-by-year basis,
costs for the normal duration of such student's
undergraduate or graduate program.
``(C) Institutions that elect a single-year tuition and fee
schedule under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall include with each
multi-year estimate provided under such subparagraph the
average deviation, in percentage terms, between previous year
estimates and actual net costs for students at their
institution.
``(D) The Secretary shall waive the requirements of
subparagraph (A) if the institution demonstrates to the
Secretary that the requirements of subparagraph (A) are not
practicable because of the occurrence of one or more events
causing the institution severe economic distress, dramatic
reduction of State or Federal aid, or any other circumstance
determined to be appropriate by the Secretary.''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be
effective on the date that is 120 days after the date of enactment of
this Act.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
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