Home-schooled students can now get federal student aid.
H.R. 6392 — Home School Graduation Recognition Act · Filed by Mark Harris (R-NC) · 9 cosponsors · Introduced Dec 3, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill changes federal law to let home-schooled students get federal student aid. Old law said students needed a high school diploma or equivalent. Now students who finish home school under state law can get aid too. This removes a barrier that stopped some home-schooled students from getting college money.
Who it affects
Home-schooled students gain access to federal student aid like Pell Grants and federal loans. Colleges may see more students apply. The bill does not cost taxpayers money.
One thing to notice
States decide what counts as a home school under their own laws. The bill does not say how the government will check that a student finished home school.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
9 cosponsors: 8 Republicans, 1 Independents.
- Dec 3, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Dec 3, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
- Dec 11, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Dec 11, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 33 - 0”
- Mar 3, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2364-2365)”
- Mar 3, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Walberg moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Dec 2025 to Dec 2025.
Those reports show $33,501 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 36 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Mark Harris, who sponsored the bill, received $190,505 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Council on Education — $33,501 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- federal student aid — Money the U.S. government gives or lends to help students pay for college.
- Pell Grants — Money the government gives to students with low family income to help pay for college.
- home school — School where a parent or tutor teaches a child at home instead of at a school building.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (759 characters) on Jul 5, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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