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3086
2025-12-05T08:49:16Z
2025-12-05T08:49:16Z
Senate
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S
2023-10-19
118
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3086
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Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Senate
Standing
  - Referred To
2023-10-19T16:20:03Z

- America’s College Promise Act of 2023
118
5998
HR
2023-10-25
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
  - Identical bill
CRS
- 2023-10-19
  - sshr00
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
IntroReferral
- 2023-10-19
Introduced in Senate
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WI
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2023-10-19
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2023-10-19
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2023-10-19
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2023-10-19
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2023-10-19
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2023-10-19
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2023-10-19
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IL
2023-10-19
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NM
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2023-10-19
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2023-11-02
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Education
Education
2023-11-01T22:00:40Z
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2023-10-19
Introduced in Senate
2024-10-09T18:45:22Z
America's College Promise Act of 2023
This bill provides funding and establishes grant programs to expand access to higher education, including by providing free community college to students.
Specifically, the bill establishes a program to waive resident tuition and fees for community college students. The Department of Education (ED) must award grants to states and tribal colleges and universities to pay the federal share of the program.
As a condition of receiving such a grant, a state must (1) submit a plan to align the requirements for receiving a regular high school diploma with the requirements for entering credit-bearing coursework at community colleges; and (2) submit a plan to improve transfer pathways between institutions of higher education (IHEs), including by ensuring that associate degrees awarded by community colleges are fully transferable to four-year IHEs.
Next, the bill directs ED to award grants to states and tribal colleges and universities for implementing evidence-based institutional reforms and innovative practices to improve student outcomes.
In addition, ED must award grants to participating historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities, and minority-serving institutions to waive or significantly reduce the first 60 credits of tuition and fees for low-income students.

America’s College Promise Act of 2023
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America’s College Promise Act of 2023
2024-07-24T15:20:09Z
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
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America’s College Promise Act of 2023
2024-05-24T13:35:54Z
Introduced in Senate
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- Official Title as Introduced
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A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish grants for tuition-free community colleges, student success grants, and grants for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Minority-Serving Institutions, and for other purposes.
2023-10-25T06:29:18Z
Introduced in Senate
IS
- Introduced in Senate
2023-10-19T04:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s3086is/xml/BILLS-118s3086is.xml
2023-10-19
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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