119th Congress
H.R. 3543
College for All Act of 2025
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became law
- Sponsor
- Pramila Jayapal(D-WA)
- Introduced
- May 21, 2025
- Policy area
- Education
- Committees
- House Committee on Education and Workforce; House Committee on the Budget; House Committee on Ways and Means
- Official text
- Introduced in House · Congress.gov page
Cosponsors (78)
Original cosponsors (26)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
- Becca Balint (D-VT)
- Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
- Cleo Fields (D-LA)
- Delia C. Ramirez (D-IL)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
- Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)
- Greg Casar (D-TX)
- Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
- Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL)
- John Garamendi (D-CA)
- Juan Vargas (D-CA)
- Madeleine Dean (D-PA)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI)
- Mark Takano (D-CA)
- Maxwell Frost (D-FL)
- Morgan McGarvey (D-KY)
- Nikema Williams (D-GA)
- Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
- Ritchie Torres (D-NY)
- Ro Khanna (D-CA)
- Seth Magaziner (D-RI)
- Shri Thanedar (D-MI)
- Summer L. Lee (D-PA)
- Valerie P. Foushee (D-NC)
- Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY)
Added later (52)
- Lateefah Simon (D-CA) · May 29, 2025
- Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM) · May 29, 2025
- Robert Garcia (D-CA) · May 29, 2025
- Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) · Jun 3, 2025
- Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA) · Jun 3, 2025
- James P. McGovern (D-MA) · Jun 3, 2025
- Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL) · Jun 3, 2025
- S001193 · Jun 3, 2025
- Alma S. Adams (D-NC) · Jun 4, 2025
- Ilhan Omar (D-MN) · Jun 4, 2025
- Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA) · Jun 9, 2025
- Jill N. Tokuda (D-HI) · Jun 10, 2025
- Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) · Jun 11, 2025
- Dwight Evans (D-PA) · Jun 13, 2025
- Judy Chu (D-CA) · Jun 17, 2025
- Darren Soto (D-FL) · Jul 14, 2025
- Ted Lieu (D-CA) · Jul 15, 2025
- Robert Menendez (D-NJ) · Aug 8, 2025
- Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA) · Aug 15, 2025
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) · Aug 26, 2025
- Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) · Aug 26, 2025
- Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) · Aug 26, 2025
- Robin L. Kelly (D-IL) · Aug 29, 2025
- Daniel S. Goldman (D-NY) · Oct 17, 2025
- Danny K. Davis (D-IL) · Oct 17, 2025
- LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) · Oct 17, 2025
- Maxine Dexter (D-OR) · Oct 31, 2025
- Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL) · Nov 7, 2025
- Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) · Nov 7, 2025
- Wesley Bell (D-MO) · Nov 7, 2025
- George Latimer (D-NY) · Nov 18, 2025
- Adelita S. Grijalva (D-AZ) · Nov 19, 2025
- Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY) · Nov 19, 2025
- Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX) · Dec 2, 2025
- Donald Norcross (D-NJ) · Dec 9, 2025
- Jahana Hayes (D-CT) · Jan 8, 2026
- Andrea Salinas (D-OR) · Jan 30, 2026
- Al Green (D-TX) · Mar 20, 2026
- Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) · Apr 27, 2026
- Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) · Jun 8, 2026
- Maxine Waters (D-CA) · Jul 13, 2026
- Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) · Jul 15, 2026
- Luz M. Rivas (D-CA) · Jul 16, 2026
- Kevin Mullin (D-CA) · Jul 20, 2026
- Laura Friedman (D-CA) · Jul 20, 2026
- Grace Meng (D-NY) · Jul 21, 2026
- Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL) · Aug 20, 2026
- Emily Randall (D-WA) · Aug 31, 2026
- Everton Blair Jr. (D-GA) · Sep 15, 2026
- Christian D. Menefee (D-TX) · Sep 21, 2026
- Veronica Escobar (D-TX) · Sep 24, 2026
- Dave Min (D-CA) · Oct 1, 2026
Summary
Summary by the Congressional Research Service· describes the “Introduced in House” version
College for All Act of 2025
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 FY2035 the Federal TRIO Programs and reauthorizes through FY2029 the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs.
Roll-call votes
No recorded votes on this bill.
Actions
- May 21, 2025 · House
Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. - May 21, 2025
Introduced in House