[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3901 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3901

   To amend the Education Sciences and Reform Act of 2002 to include 
        racial subgroups in IPEDS data, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2019

Ms. Judy Chu of California (for herself, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Case, Mr. Ted 
  Lieu of California, and Mr. Takano) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Education Sciences and Reform Act of 2002 to include 
        racial subgroups in IPEDS data, 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 ``Student Data Counts Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF RACIAL SUBGROUPS IN IPEDS DATA.

    Section 153(a)(3) of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (20 
U.S.C. 9543(a)(3)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``feasible, information'' and inserting the 
        following: ``feasible--
                    ``(A) information'';
            (2) by inserting ``and'' after the semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) information from the Integrated Postsecondary 
                Education Data Survey or a successor system (whichever 
                includes the most recent data), that is disaggregated 
                by race in a manner that captures all the racial groups 
                specified in the American Community Survey of the 
                United States Census Bureau;''.
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