Advance legislation to make college costs more transparent for students and families, including a universal net price calculator and expanded College Scorecard information.

I look forward to getting it across the finish line so students can make informed decisions about their futures.

Trahan commits to keep pushing the Student Financial Clarity Act through Congress so students can compare college costs more easily.

House Panel Approves Trahan Bill to Make Cost of College More Transparent | U.S. Representative Lori Trahan
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Congresswoman Trahan’s FACT Act ensures that all students receive clear, comparable financial aid offers from each institution to which they are accepted. Standardizing the way institutions present tuition and fees will empower students to make decisions that are right for them and their families without rolling the dice on their financial security. Clean Data in Higher Education Act... provide students with clear, accessible information... Net Price Calculator Act, which requires institutions to prominently display costs of tuition, room and board, and other expenses on their website

Trahan promotes her legislation to standardize financial aid offers and require clearer, accessible college cost information, including net price calculators.

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Trahan's official House education page says she helped craft the College Affordability Act and lists her work on the FACT Act, Clean Data in Higher Education Act, and Net Price Calculator Act. It says the Net Price Calculator Act was included in the College Affordability Act and would require institutions to prominently display costs through a consumer net price calculator tool.

Official House source ties Trahan to legislation addressing college-cost transparency, including net price calculators and data/consumer information provisions. This is concrete effort, not evidence of enactment.

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Congress.gov states that H.R.1915's latest action on 2019-11-14 was that Mrs. Trahan assumed first sponsorship. The CRS summary says the bill would set minimum net price calculator requirements and authorize the Department of Education to develop a universal net price calculator so users could answer one set of questions and compare net prices across institutions. The tracker says the bill's status was Introduced.

Trahan took over first sponsorship of a bill directly matching the universal net price calculator promise, but the bill remained only introduced and was not enacted.

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H.R.1915 - Net Price Calculator Improvement Act, 116th Congress
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The reported House text of H.R.4674 lists Mrs. Trahan among the original introducers. Congress.gov shows the latest action as 2020-12-28, placed on the Union Calendar after being reported by the Committee on Education and Labor, and the tracker still says the bill's status was Introduced.

Trahan was an original supporter of a broader Higher Education Act reauthorization that advanced out of committee, but it did not pass into law in the 116th Congress.

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Text - H.R.4674 - College Affordability Act, 116th Congress
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H.R.4674 text would require minimum net price calculator standards, including prominent website placement, cost-of-attendance details, grant-aid estimates, and privacy protections. It also authorizes a universal net price calculator housed within the Department of Education that lets users answer one set of questions and receive net prices for any covered institution.

Bill text matches the promised universal net price calculator and college-cost transparency provisions, but the bill was not enacted.

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Text - H.R.4674 - College Affordability Act, 116th Congress
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The Congress.gov cosponsor page for H.R.1766 lists Rep. Trahan, Lori [D-MA-3] with a cosponsorship date of 2019-05-01.

Trahan cosponsored the College Transparency Act in her first term, an effort related to expanding public postsecondary data for students and families.

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Cosponsors - H.R.1766 - College Transparency Act, 116th Congress
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Congress.gov summarizes H.R.1766 as requiring a secure postsecondary student data system to evaluate enrollment, completion, postcollegiate outcomes, higher education costs, and financial aid, and to provide complete customizable information for students and families. The bill's latest action was referral to committee, and the tracker says status Introduced.

The College Transparency Act addressed expanded student and family information, but it remained introduced and was not enacted in the 116th Congress.

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H.R.1766 - College Transparency Act, 116th Congress
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H.R.1766 text would require public information through a user-friendly consumer website and analytic tool, including customizable comparisons across institutions and programs. Required public data included student access, progression, completion, costs, financial aid, debt, employment, earnings, loan repayment, defaults, and further education rates.

Bill text shows the kind of expanded public college outcomes and cost information contemplated by the promise, but it was part of an unenacted legislative effort.

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Text - H.R.1766 - College Transparency Act, 116th Congress
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