College students from four U.S. territories pay in-state tuition rates.
H.R. 6472 — Territorial Student Access to Higher Education Act · Filed by James (Jim) Moylan (R-GU) · 5 cosponsors · Introduced Dec 4, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill changes federal law. Public colleges that get federal money must charge in-state tuition to students from four territories. Those territories are Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Right now these students pay out-of-state tuition, which costs much more. They will now pay the same rate as state students.
Who it affects
Students from those four territories save money on college tuition. Public colleges lose money because they charge less tuition to these students. Private colleges do not have to follow this rule.
One thing to notice
Only public colleges that take federal money must follow this rule. Private colleges can still charge out-of-state tuition to territorial students.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
5 cosponsors: 3 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
- Dec 4, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Dec 4, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · 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: 32 - 1”
- Mar 3, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Walberg moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
- Mar 4, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required)…”
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.
James (Jim) Moylan, who sponsored the bill, received $40,000 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
- in-state tuition — The lower tuition price a college charges to students who live in that state.
- out-of-state tuition — The higher tuition price a college charges to students who live in a different state.
- territories — Places that belong to the United States but are not states.
- 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 (1,499 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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