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H. Rept. 119-414 1 (2025-12-18)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahxk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED r U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 119TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-414 ACCREDITATION CHOICE AND INNOVATION ACT DECEMBER 18, 2025.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WALBERG, from the Committee on Education and Workforce, submitted the following REPORT together with MINORITY VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 4054] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Education and Workforce, to whom was re- ferred the bill (H.R. 4054) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reform accreditation, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Striking all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Accreditation Choice and Innovation Act. SEC. 2. ACCREDITING AGENCY RECOGNITION. (a) CRITERIA REQUIRED.-Section 496(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1099b(a)) is amended- (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), in the first sentence, by striking or training and inserting or skills development; (2) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows: (1) the accrediting agency or association (other than an accrediting agency or association described in paragraph (2)(D)) shall be a State or national agency or association and shall demonstrate the ability to operate as an institutional or programmatic accrediting agency or association within the State or nation- ally, as appropriate;; (3) in paragraph (2)- (A) in subparagraph (A)- (i) in clause (i), by striking principal; and (ii) in clause (ii), by striking its principal and inserting a; and (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking or at the end; 69-006