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S. 3589119th Congress
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The RISE Act would stop colleges from requiring costly new evaluations to prove disabilities already documented in high school.
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The RISE Act would require colleges receiving federal student aid to accept standard documents—like an IEP, a 504 plan, or a professional evaluation—as proof of disability, ending the need for new evaluations. Colleges would also have to clearly explain and share their accommodation eligibility rules with students, parents, and staff, and report anonymized disability-service data to a national database.
This affects colleges and universities, students with disabilities and their families, high school special education staff, and federal education data systems.
The changes could ease the transition from high school to college and increase public transparency about how colleges handle accommodations, without altering existing ADA definitions or rights.
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Right now: a Senate committee is reviewing it. If the House changes it, it goes back to the Senate before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.