Bills · 119th Congress · Education

Territorial Student Access to Higher Education Act

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Roll calls on this bill

Votes on passage
HouseOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · 3/4/26Suspension of the rulesA fast-track House procedure, usually for measures expected to have broad support. Debate is limited to 40 minutes, no amendments can be offered, and it needs a two-thirds vote of members voting — not a simple majority. A yes vote passes the bill. “As amended” means changes written into the motion itself are included.Rules of the House, Rule XV, clause 1 ↗
Passed
  • Democratic208 Yea · 1 Nay · 5 Not voting
  • Republican142 Yea · 71 Nay · 4 Not voting
  • Independent / Other1 Yea · 0 Nay · 0 Not voting
Official summary (CRS)

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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Sponsor
Rep. James C. Moylan ( Republican · GU)
Cosponsors
5
Introduced
12/4/25
Policy area
Education
Status
12/4/25Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
12/4/25Introduced in House
12/11/25Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 32 - 1.
12/11/25Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
2/11/26Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 421.
2/11/26Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Workforce. H. Rept. 119-495.
3/3/26At 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.
3/3/26DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6472.
3/3/26Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2366-2367; text: CR H2366)
3/3/26Mr. Walberg moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
3/4/26Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
3/4/26On 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).
3/4/26Passed/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).
3/4/26Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2390-2391)
3/9/26Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.