H.R. 6498 · 119th Congress

Student Financial Clarity Act of 2025

Introduced on Dec 9, 2025 by Brett Guthrie (R-KY-2). 4 cosponsors, 3 of them from another party. Latest action (Jan 21, 2026): Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 395.

Stage
Reported by committee
Introduced
Dec 9, 2025
Cosponsors
4
3 from the other party
Policy area
Education
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase transparency in college tuition for consumers, and for other purposes.

Subjects

  • Academic performance and assessments
  • Data collection, sharing, protection
  • Government information and archives
  • Government lending and loan guarantees
  • Higher education
  • Student aid and college costs
  • Wages and earnings

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Reported to House, Jan 21, 2026). Public domain.

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).

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Brett GuthrieR-KY-2Sponsor

Democrats · 3

Republicans · 1

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. Dec 9, 2025Introduced in House
  2. Dec 9, 2025Introduced in House
  3. Dec 9, 2025 · HouseReferred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
  4. Dec 11, 2025 · HouseCommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  5. Dec 11, 2025 · HouseOrdered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 27 - 6.
  6. Jan 21, 2026Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Workforce. H. Rept. 119-461.
  7. Jan 21, 2026 · HouseReported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Workforce. H. Rept. 119-461.
  8. Jan 21, 2026 · HousePlaced on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 395.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. American Council on Education3 reports
    $148.4K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION$5M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  2. NATIONAL ASSN OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES3 reports
    $340K reported (all issues)
  3. SLM CORPORATION3 reports
    $820K reported (all issues)
  4. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES2 reports
    $80K reported (all issues)
  5. American Academy of Family Physicians2 reports
    $1.7M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANSAI match · 99%
  6. American Federation of Teachers2 reports
    $940K reported (all issues)
  7. Career Education Colleges & Universities (FKA Ass'n of Private Sector Colleges a1 report
    $100K reported (all issues)
  8. The Pennsylvania State University1 report
    $250K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$415.5M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.