[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4873 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4873

 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution 
    of higher education to describe how it spends tuition and fees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2016

  Mr. Meehan (for himself, Mr. MacArthur, and Mr. Smith of Missouri) 
 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 each institution 
    of higher education to describe how it spends tuition and fees.

    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 ``Tuition Use Information 
Transparently Identified Online Act'' or the ``TUITION Act''.

SEC. 2. DISAGGREGATION OF TUITION AND FEES BY INSTITUTIONAL EXPENSES.

    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:
            ``(30) The institution will, on an annual basis--
                    ``(A) disaggregate the total revenue generated by 
                the institution from tuition, fees, and other 
                institutional charges for students enrolled in programs 
                eligible for assistance under this title, for the most 
                recent academic year for which data are available, by 
                the proportion of such revenue the institution applied 
                toward any type of institutional expense (such as 
                faculty salaries or facility maintenance);
                    ``(B) provide a description of each such expense; 
                and
                    ``(C) publish, on its public website in the 
                location providing admissions information, the 
                information described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) in a 
                manner that clearly presents such information to 
                students (including prospective students) and their 
                parents.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by this Act shall take effect with respect to 
award year 2016-2017 and each succeeding award year.
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