H.R. 4117: College for All Act of 2023
Quick Facts:
Bill Sponsor: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7)
Congress: 118
Date Introduced: June 14, 2023
Last Action: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on the B (June 14, 2023)
College for All Act of 2023
This bill establishes measures to expand access to higher education, including by eliminating tuition and required fees for eligible students, revising the Federal Pell Grant program, and reauthorizing certain programs to assist students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Specifically, the bill provides funding to enable states and tribal colleges and universities, through a federal-state partnership, to eliminate tuition and required fees for (1) all students at community colleges and two-year tribal colleges and universities, and (2) working- and middle-class students at four-year public institutions of higher education and tribal colleges and universities.
The bill provides funding to enable private, nonprofit historically Black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions to eliminate tuition and required fees for eligible students.
The bill permanently reauthorizes and otherwise revises the Federal Pell Grant program by
- providing funding to increase the maximum award for each eligible student,
- increasing the duration limit for the use of Pell Grants,
- allowing students to use their awards to cover living and nontuition expenses, and
- expanding eligibility to Dreamer students (i.e., students who have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status and who entered the United States before the age of 16) and students with other immigration statuses.
Further, the bill requires the Department of Education to award grants to eligible states and tribal colleges and universities for improving student outcomes.
The bill reauthorizes through FY2033 the Federal TRIO Programs and reauthorizes through FY2027 the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS-2) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA-4) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA-12) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA-5) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ-10) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI-2) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA-28) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO-1) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM-1) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-9) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY-6) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ-3) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY-7) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14) (June 14, 2023)
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Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA-39) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY-9) (June 14, 2023)
Del. Eleanor Norton (D-DC-At-Large) (June 14, 2023)
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Rep. Dwight Evans (D-PA-3) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA-4) (June 14, 2023)
Rep. Chuy García (D-IL-4) (June 14, 2023)
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Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC-4) (July 12, 2023)
Rep. Troy Carter (D-LA-2) (Aug. 8, 2023)
Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA-52) (Aug. 8, 2023)
Rep. Morgan McGarvey (D-KY-3) (Aug. 22, 2023)
Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO-7) (Sept. 28, 2023)
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA-2) (Oct. 3, 2023)
Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ-8) (Oct. 24, 2023)
Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA-8) (Nov. 1, 2023)
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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA-42) (Nov. 2, 2023)
Rep. Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1) (Nov. 2, 2023)
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA-43) (Jan. 3, 2024)
Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL-9) (Jan. 3, 2024)
Rep. Andrea Salinas (D-OR-6) (March 15, 2024)
Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX-16) (Oct. 1, 2024)