117 HR 6559 IH: Fair College Admissions for Students Act U.S. House of Representatives 2022-02-02 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I117th CONGRESS2d SessionH. R. 6559IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESFebruary 2, 2022Mr. Bowman (for himself, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Bush, Mr. García of Illinois, Ms. Pressley, and Ms. Jayapal) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and LaborA BILLTo amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit institutions of higher education participating in Federal student assistance programs from giving preferential treatment in the admissions process to legacy students or donors.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Fair College Admissions for Students Act.

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Ban on legacy or donor preferences in admissions

(a)

In general

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)(A)The institution will not provide any manner of preferential treatment in the admission process to applicants on the basis of their relationships to—(i)donors to the institution; or (ii)except as provided in subparagraph (B), alumni of the institution.(B)The Secretary may waive the limitation described in subparagraph (A)(ii) for an award year for an eligible institution described in section 371(a) if such institution demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that preferential treatment in the admission process to applicants on the basis of their relationships to alumni of the institution is in the best interest of students who have been historically underrepresented in higher education..(b)

Effective date

The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the first day of the second award year (as defined in section 481(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1088(a))) that begins after the date of enactment of this Act.