Prohibits college accreditors from requiring institutions to support specific political or ideological viewpoints or from judging institutions on their ideology, while letting religious institutions keep faith-based requirements.

• Requires accrediting agencies to confirm their standards do not require, encourage, or coerce institutions to support or oppose specific political, ideological, or social viewpoints, or assess institutions on ideology.
• Keeps an exception for religious institutions, which may require statements of faith, religious codes of conduct, and oaths to uphold the Constitution.
• Limits the Secretary of Education to setting accreditation criteria that Section 496 of the Higher Education Act requires, and ties institutional eligibility to compliance with accreditor standards.
• States that nothing in the act prevents religious accreditors from enforcing religious standards on the institutions they accredit.

• Education and Workforce Committee (House)

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