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S 2511 Advanced toward a vote

Requires the National Center for Education Statistics to build and maintain a privacy-protected database tracking individual postsecondary students' enrollment, completion, earnings, and debt, with summary results published for students and families to compare colleges.

Official title: College Transparency Act

Next stop Senate floor: awaiting a vote
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
Senate
Introduced 29-JUL-2025
Referred 29-JUL-2025
Approved by committee 30-JUL-2026
Reported 04-AUG-2026
On the calendar 04-AUG-2026
Key points
  • Requires the Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics to develop the system within 5 years of enactment, with an advisory committee guiding its design.
  • Requires institutions participating in federal student aid programs to submit student-level data, and allows voluntary submission by others.
  • Pulls earnings, employment, and loan data from agencies including the IRS, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Social Security Administration, and Bureau of Labor Statistics, and publishes aggregate results on a public website.
  • Prohibits sharing individual data for law enforcement, immigration enforcement, debt collection, or federal college rankings, and bars selling the data to third parties.
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Official CRS summary

Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Reported to Senate, 04-AUG-2026).

CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov
Committee referrals (1) Policy area

Education

Sponsor Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Cosponsors · 26
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