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Bill · 119th Congress · HR 6498

Student Financial Clarity Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-12-09Topic: education

Summary

Summary by the Congressional Research Service

Student Financial Clarity Act of 2025 This bill requires certain actions to provide consumers (e.g., enrolled and prospective students) with additional financial information on institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in federal student aid programs. Specifically, the Department of Education (ED) must update its College Scorecard website with additional information, including detailed data (e.g., costs, financial aid, student debt and repayment, and earnings) for each program of study at each IHE. (The College Scorecard is a comparison tool for information on school sizes, settings, graduation rates, average costs, and salary ranges per field of study.) Additionally, ED must establish a Universal Net Price Calculator on a dedicated ED website and annually update the data. Among other elements, this calculator must (1) allow an individual to select and compare multiple IHEs and programs of study, (2) provide the individual with net price estimates for each selected IHE and each selected program of study, and (3) provide access to information in an electronic and downloadable format. Each IHE must make publicly available on its website either the net price calculator developed by ED or the IHE's own calculator (if it includes, at a minimum, the same data elements of ED's calculator).

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2026-01-21HousePlaced on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 395.
2026-01-21HouseReported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Workforce. H. Rept. 119-461.report
2026-01-21Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Workforce. H. Rept. 119-461.report
2025-12-11HouseOrdered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 27 - 6.refer
2025-12-11HouseCommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Heldrefer
2025-12-09HouseReferred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.refer
2025-12-09Introduced in Houseintroduce
2025-12-09Introduced in Houseintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-10-08. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.