College Affordability and Accountability Act
Latest action · Jan 30, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedNov 19, 2003
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
College Affordability and Accountability Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to require State maintenance of effort in providing funding to public institutions of higher education (IHEs).
Requires all IHEs to plan, engage in, and report on cost containment strategies. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to conduct research on such strategies. Directs the Secretary to publish an annual report on college affordability and to disseminate certain data, including the net price tuition index (NTPI) for each IHE through a college price calculator on an enhanced college opportunities on line (COOL) website.
Establishes a Pell Plus program to provide an increased award to each Pell Grant recipient at IHEs that maintain specified types of: (1) low tuition; (2) guaranteed tuition; or (3) affordable tuition.
Establishes a program of grants for cooperative education for IHEs that restrain tuition increases.
Authorizes grants and contracts for cooperative education demonstration and innovation projects, training and resource centers, and research.
Directs the Secretary to commission the National Research Council to study the viability of developing and implementing standards in environmental, health, and safety areas to provide for differential regulation of: (1) industrial laboratories and facilities; and (2) research and teaching laboratories.
Authorizes the Secretary to select IHEs, IHE systems, or IHE consortia for voluntary participation in an articulation agreement demonstration program to specify the acceptability of courses in transfer toward meeting specific degree requirements, as a means to lower tuition prices for students.
Directs the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance to convene a task force of experts, representative of key constituents in higher education, to: (1) determine the best methods to finance higher education in the long-term; (2) help public institutions utilize long-term budgeting to plan for the future; (3) review the trends of financing of higher education; and (4) define the role played by the States, the Federal Government, families, and outside entities in financing higher education, and determine the best methods to strengthen this partnership.
Cosponsors 56
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 19, 2003 to Jul 7, 2004, with 20 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-OR | David Wu | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-HI | Ed Case | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-CA | George Miller | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-CA | Nancy Pelosi | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-IL | Rahm Emanuel | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Nov 19, 2003 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 30, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- Nov 19, 2003Introduced in House
- Nov 19, 2003Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
- College administration
- College costs
- Colleges
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Cost control
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Educational accountability
- Educational planning
- Educational technology
- Electronic government information
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publications
- Government publicity
- Government regulation
- Governmental investigations
- Higher education
- Indexing (Economic policy)
- Internet
- Job hunting
- Labor and Employment
- Laboratories
- Mathematics
- Minorities
- Minority education
- Occupational health and safety
- Public schools
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific education
- Social Welfare
- Strategic planning
- Student aid
- Student employment
- Student records
- Teacher education
- Technological innovations
- Vocational and technical education
- Web sites
- Women
- Women's education
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