Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
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Introduced: Dec 4, 2025
Latest action date: Mar 9, 2026
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Status detail: The full action history records passage in the House.
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Territorial Student Access to Higher Education Act
This bill requires public institutions of higher education that participate in federal student aid programs to charge no more than in-state tuition and fee rates to students who are residents of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, or the U.S. Virgin Islands, provided they are also U.S. nationals.
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 351 - 72 (Roll no. 82).
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 351 - 72 (Roll no. 82).
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2390-2391)
At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6472.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2366-2367; text: CR H2366)
Mr. Walberg moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 421.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Workforce. H. Rept. 119-495.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Workforce. H. Rept. 119-495.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 32 - 1.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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