HR 4675 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Kerry Rose Fire Sprinkler Notification Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Nov 17, 2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

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.

  1. IntroducedMay 19, 2014
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Kerry Rose Fire Sprinkler Notification Act - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education (IHEs) participating in title IV programs to include in their annual fire safety report: (1) the number and percentage of beds at their student housing facilities that are protected by an automatic fire sprinkler system in the bedroom, and (2) the number and percentage that are not so protected.

Directs the Secretary of Education to make publicly available statistics on the number and percentage, in the aggregate and by state, of:

  • student housing facilities at IHEs with less than 100% of the beds protected by an automatic fire sprinkler system in the bedroom,
  • student housing facilities at IHEs with less than 50% of the beds so protected,
  • beds at student housing facilities at IHEs that are so protected, and
  • beds at such facilities that are not so protected.

Defines "student housing facilities" to include facilities that are campus facilities and facilities that are noncampus buildings or properties.

Requires IHEs that maintain student housing facilities to:

  • include in all materials relating to such facilities information on whether they are equipped with a fire safety system that includes an automatic fire sprinkler system in each bedroom,
  • give students who are selecting a student housing facility written notice as to whether or not the facility has such a system, and
  • give students written notice on the date they move into a student housing facility as to whether the facility has such a system and how its fire safety system is described in the IHE's annual fire safety report.

Cosponsors 13

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 19, 2014 to Sep 10, 2014, with 11 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-INAndré CarsonOriginalMay 19, 2014
D-NJBill Pascrell, Jr.OriginalMay 19, 2014
D-NHCarol Shea-PorterOriginalMay 19, 2014
D-NYCarolyn McCarthyOriginalMay 19, 2014
D-NYCharles B. RangelOriginalMay 19, 2014
D-DCEleanor Holmes NortonOriginalMay 19, 2014
D-MOEmanuel CleaverOriginalMay 19, 2014
D-MAJames P. McGovernOriginalMay 19, 2014
D-RIJames R. LangevinOriginalMay 19, 2014
D-CALucille Roybal-AllardOriginalMay 19, 2014
D-NYPaul TonkoOriginalMay 19, 2014
D-TXMarc A. VeaseyJul 31, 2014
D-NJRush HoltSep 10, 2014

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Nov 17, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
  2. May 19, 2014Introduced in House
  3. May 19, 2014Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

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Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. May 19, 2014Introduced in House

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