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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION 4
119TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session J HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-669
NO AID FOR GHOST STUDENTS ACT OF 2026
MAY 26, 2026.-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
SUPPLEMENTAL VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 7892]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Education and Workforce, to whom was re-
ferred the bill (H.R. 7892) to amend the Higher Education Act of
1965 to require to the Secretary of Education to use an identity
fraud detection system to review each FAFSA to determine wheth-
er the FAFSA presents a reasonable suspicion of identity fraud,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an
amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the No Aid for Ghost Students Act of 2026.
SEC. 2. IDENTITY FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM.
(a) IDENTITY FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM.-Section 483 of the Higher Education
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1090) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(e) IDENTITY FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-In addition to or in conjunction with other verification proc-
esses carried out under this title, the Secretary shall use an identity fraud de-
tection system to review each application submitted under this section on or
after October 1, 2026, to determine whether the application presents a reason-
able suspicion of identity fraud. If the Secretary determines that such an appli-
cation presents a reasonable suspicion of identity fraud, the Secretary shall
carry out notifications in accordance with paragraph (2).
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