Bill limits IRS audits of colleges and protects their ideas from review.
H.R. 10330 — Higher Education Oversight for Nonprofits Ensuring Standards and Transparency Act · Filed by Alma Adams (D-NC) · 19 cosponsors · Introduced Sep 10, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill creates new rules for how the IRS can audit colleges. The IRS must get approval from the Treasury Department first. Audits must finish within 2 years. A college cannot be audited again within 5 years of a passed audit. The IRS cannot examine a college's beliefs or what it teaches.
Who it affects
Colleges get new shields from IRS audits. The IRS has less power to check colleges' tax status. Other taxpayers still face normal IRS audit rules.
One thing to notice
The bill protects colleges' beliefs and what they teach from IRS review. Other tax-exempt groups like hospitals do not get these same shields.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
19 cosponsors: 19 Democrats.
- Sep 10, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Sep 10, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- tax-exempt — An organization that does not pay federal income taxes because it serves the public good.
- beliefs — The ideas and values an organization holds and teaches.
- audit — An official review of an organization's money and records to check if rules are followed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (17,222 characters) on Sep 11, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-22.
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