Clean Data in Higher Education Act of 2019

Clean Data in Higher Education Act of 2019

This bill requires the Department of Education to assign a unique numeric identifier to each campus of each institution of higher education for the purposes of reporting and disaggregating data such as tuition costs and graduation rates.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4430 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4430

    To direct the Secretary of Education to assign a unique numeric 
   identifier to institutions of higher education to facilitate data 
           collection and reporting, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2019

 Mrs. Trahan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
    To direct the Secretary of Education to assign a unique numeric 
   identifier to institutions of higher education to facilitate data 
           collection and reporting, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Clean Data in Higher Education Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. UNIVERSAL UNIQUE NUMERIC DATA IDENTIFIER.

    (a) Assignment of Unique Numeric Identifier Required.--Not later 
than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Education shall assign a unique numeric identifier to at 
least each campus of each institution of higher education that 
participates in a program under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.) to be used for reporting and 
disaggregating data for the purposes of the following:
            (1) Surveys conducted as a part of the Integrated 
        Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) or any other 
        Federal postsecondary institution data collection effort, as 
        completed in accordance with section 487(a)(17) of the Higher 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1094(a)(17)).
            (2) Reports required to be filed under section 485(f) of 
        the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1092(f)).
            (3) The electronic exchange of data under section 485B of 
        the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1092b).
            (4) Determinations under section 496 of the Higher 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1099b).
            (5) Reports filed on the College Navigator website (as 
        defined in section 132 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
        U.S.C. 1015a)).
            (6) Reports filed on the College Scorecard website of the 
        Department of Education (or any successor website).
            (7) To the extent determined to be appropriate by the 
        Secretary, any other data systems of the Department of 
        Education that include information on institutions of higher 
        education.
    (b) Considerations.--In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary 
of Education shall--
            (1) consider the ability to use the unique numeric 
        identifier assigned under such subsection to--
                    (A) disaggregate institutions of higher education 
                by corporate ownership;
                    (B) identify an institution of higher education 
                with more than one campus; and
                    (C) in the case of institutions of higher education 
                described in subparagraph (B), distinguish between a 
                campus with a specific location and a distance 
                education program;
            (2) account for interactions of the unique numeric 
        identifier with requirements under title IV of the Higher 
        Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.), including by preventing 
        institutional attempts to evade such requirements by changing 
        the unique numeric identifiers associated with the campuses of 
        the institution;
            (3) to the extent practicable, minimize the paperwork 
        burden on institutions of higher education;
            (4) create and make public a crosswalk indicating changes 
        in the unique numeric identifiers assigned by the Secretary to 
        each campus under subsection (a) and the numeric identifiers 
        used by the Department of Education prior to the date on which 
        the Secretary assigns each campus a unique numeric identifier; 
        and
            (5) annually create and make public an updated crosswalk 
        indicating changes in unique numeric identifiers assigned to 
        campuses, including changes that result from the establishment 
        of new locations, the closing of campuses, and changes in 
        ownership and affiliation.
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