Clean Data in Higher Education Act of 2019

I 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 4430 To direct the Secretary of Education to assign a unique numeric identifier to institutions of higher education to facilitate data collection and report- ing, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 Mrs. TRAHAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To direct the Secretary of Education to assign a unique numeric identifier to institutions of higher education to facilitate data collection and reporting, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Data in Higher 4 Education Act of 2019’’. 5 SEC. 2. UNIVERSAL UNIQUE NUMERIC DATA IDENTIFIER. 6 (a) ASSIGNMENT OF UNIQUE NUMERIC IDENTIFIER 7 REQUIRED.—Not later than 18 months after the date of 8 VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:04 Sep 23, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4430.IH H4430 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 4430 IH the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Education 1 shall assign a unique numeric identifier to at least each 2 campus of each institution of higher education that par- 3 ticipates in a program under title IV of the Higher Edu- 4 cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.) to be used 5 for reporting and disaggregating data for the purposes of 6 the following: 7 (1) Surveys conducted as a part of the Inte- 8 grated Postsecondary Education Data System 9 (IPEDS) or any other Federal postsecondary insti- 10 tution data collection effort, as completed in accord- 11 ance with section 487(a)(17) of the Higher Edu- 12 cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1094(a)(17)). 13 (2) Reports required to be filed under section 14 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 15 U.S.C. 1092(f)). 16 (3) The electronic exchange of data under sec- 17 tion 485B of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 18 U.S.C. 1092b). 19 (4) Determinations under section 496 of the 20 Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1099b). 21 (5) Reports filed on the College Navigator 22 website (as defined in section 132 of the Higher 23 Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1015a)). 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:04 Sep 23, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4430.IH H4430 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 4430 IH (6) Reports filed on the College Scorecard 1 website of the Department of Education (or any suc- 2 cessor website). 3 (7) To the extent determined to be appropriate 4 by the Secretary, any other data systems of the De- 5 partment of Education that include information on 6 institutions of higher education. 7 (b) CONSIDERATIONS.—In carrying out subsection 8 (a), the Secretary of Education shall— 9 (1) consider the ability to use the unique nu- 10 meric identifier assigned under such subsection to— 11 (A) disaggregate institutions of higher edu- 12 cation by corporate ownership; 13 (B) identify an institution of higher edu- 14 cation with more than one campus; and 15 (C) in the case of institutions of higher 16 education described in subparagraph (B), dis- 17 tinguish between a campus with a specific loca- 18 tion and a distance education program; 19 (2) account for interactions of the unique nu- 20 meric identifier with requirements under title IV of 21 the Higher Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.), 22 including by preventing institutional attempts to 23 evade such requirements by changing the unique nu- 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:04 Sep 23, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4430.IH H4430 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 4430 IH meric identifiers associated with the campuses of the 1 institution; 2 (3) to the extent practicable, minimize the pa- 3 perwork burden on institutions of higher education; 4 (4) create and make public a crosswalk indi- 5 cating changes in the unique numeric identifiers as- 6 signed by the Secretary to each campus under sub- 7 section (a) and the numeric identifiers used by the 8 Department of Education prior to the date on which 9 the Secretary assigns each campus a unique numeric 10 identifier; and 11 (5) annually create and make public an updated 12 crosswalk indicating changes in unique numeric 13 identifiers assigned to campuses, including changes 14 that result from the establishment of new locations, 15 the closing of campuses, and changes in ownership 16 and affiliation. 17 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:04 Sep 23, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H4430.IH H4430 pamtmann on DSKBC07HB2PROD with BILLS