{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-3724","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 3724","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"End Woke Higher Education Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit recognized accrediting agencies and associations from requiring, encouraging, or coercing institutions of higher education to meet any political litmus test or violate any right protected by the Constitution as a condition of accreditation.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit recognized accrediting agencies and associations from requiring, encouraging, or coercing institutions of higher education to meet any political litmus test or violate any right protected by the Constitution as a condition of accreditation."},{"type":"Short Title(s) for portions of this bill from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Accreditation for College Excellence Act of 2024"},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"End Woke Higher Education Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) for portions of this bill from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Respecting the First Amendment on Campus Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"End Woke Higher Education Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House for portions of this bill","title":"Respecting the First Amendment on Campus Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House for portions of this bill","title":"Accreditation for College Excellence Act of 2024"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"End Woke Higher Education Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Accreditation for College Excellence Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Accreditation for College Excellence Act of 2023"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2023-05-25","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-09-19","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h433","question":"On Passage","title":"Accreditation for College Excellence Act","result":"Passed","yea":213,"nay":201,"present":0,"not_voting":17,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll433.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.","date":"2024-09-23"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2024-09-19","question":"On Motion to Recommit","title":"Accreditation for College Excellence Act","result":"Failed","yea":195,"nay":203,"present":0,"not_voting":33,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll432.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-04-23","stage":"Reported to House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Accreditation for College Excellence Act of 2023"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill revises the requirements for an accrediting agency to be recognized by the Department of Education as a reliable authority on the quality of education being offered at an institution of higher education (IHE)."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, an accrediting agency must confirm that its standards do not require, encourage, or coerce an IHE to (1) support, oppose, or commit to supporting or opposing specific partisan, political, or ideological viewpoints or beliefs or specific viewpoints or beliefs on social, cultural, or political issues; or (2) support or commit to supporting the disparate treatment of any individual or group on the basis of any protected class under federal civil rights law."},{"k":"p","t":"Additionally, an accrediting agency must confirm that its standards do not prohibit an IHE from having a religious mission. The accrediting agency may not prohibit the IHE from requiring an applicant, student, employee, or independent contractor to provide a statement of faith or adhere to a code of conduct."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill specifies that an IHE shall be eligible to participate in federal student aid programs if the IHE is in compliance with the standards of the accrediting agency that assesses the IHE in accordance with statute."}],"words":201},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to set conditions on accrediting agency standards and to set speech, association, and religion requirements for institutions in federal student aid programs, with enforcement by lawsuit and loss of program eligibility.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 102","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-H2099719153984CC58AF456AD52F62DFC"},{"label":"Sec. 204","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-H957926DE3CC84214A43D0D9A9ABAB6C7"},{"label":"Sec. 205","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-H8398E254F8E64A1B9B84B7C718A4C9AB"},{"label":"Sec. 206","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-HFF5E2A8D36334A5DBD44810970831A72"}]},"core_areas":["Accreditation standards and political or ideological requirements","Institutional eligibility for title IV programs based on accreditor standards","Disclosure of campus speech, association, and religion policies","Student organization recognition, fee allocation, and security fees at public institutions","Single-sex social organizations","Free expression and political tests at public institutions","Civil actions and loss of title IV eligibility for violations"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires an accrediting agency to confirm that its standards do not require, encourage, or coerce an institution to support or oppose specific partisan, political, or ideological viewpoints, or to violate a right protected by the Constitution.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 102","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-H2099719153984CC58AF456AD52F62DFC"}},{"text":"Bars an institution from participating in title IV programs unless it certifies that it has annually disclosed to current and prospective students and faculty its policies on speech on campus, freedom of association, and freedom of religion, if applicable.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 203","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-H9A301490D2DE41B59A1982B6AA24ACD1"}},{"text":"Requires public institutions in title IV programs to follow content- and viewpoint-neutral standards for student organization recognition and appeals, student fee allocations, and security fees, and bars them from denying religious student organizations rights given to other organizations.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 204","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-H957926DE3CC84214A43D0D9A9ABAB6C7"}},{"text":"Requires public institutions in title IV programs to give new students a written First Amendment statement and bars them from prohibiting lawful noncommercial expressive activity in generally accessible campus areas.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 205","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-H8398E254F8E64A1B9B84B7C718A4C9AB"}},{"text":"Bars public institutions in title IV programs from considering, requiring, or discriminating on the basis of a political test in admission, appointment, hiring, employment, promotion, or tenure, as the text defines those terms.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 205","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-H8398E254F8E64A1B9B84B7C718A4C9AB"}},{"text":"Allows an aggrieved individual or organization to bring a federal civil action for an injunction, compensatory damages, court costs, and attorney's fees over violations of sections 112B, 112C, or 112D, and sets loss of title IV eligibility for failure to comply with section 112B.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 206","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-HFF5E2A8D36334A5DBD44810970831A72"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 103","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-H4766A6E1C86F4274873C06E41D05BA97"},"heading":"Rule of construction","effect":"States that Title I does not prevent religious accreditors from holding and enforcing religious standards on the institutions they choose to accredit.","amount":null,"quote":"Nothing in this title prevents religious accreditors from holding and enforcing religious standards on institutions they choose to accredit."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 205","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-H8398E254F8E64A1B9B84B7C718A4C9AB"},"heading":"Free speech on campus","effect":"Adds free speech requirements for covered public institutions, and exempts institutions whose primary purpose is educating individuals for the military services or the merchant marine from the campus expressive activity subsection.","amount":null,"quote":"This subsection shall not apply to an institution of higher education whose primary purpose is the education of individuals for the military services of the United States, or the merchant marine."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 204","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh#toc-H957926DE3CC84214A43D0D9A9ABAB6C7"},"heading":"Freedom of association and religion","effect":"Adds a section on student organization recognition, fee allocation, security fees, religious groups and single-sex social organizations. It also says institutions may still take adverse action against a student organization that knowingly gave material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.","amount":null,"quote":"against a student organization based on the student organization having knowingly provided material support or resources to an organization designated as a foreign terrorist organization"}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-09-19","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/3724/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-3724.png","v":"fc72fb861178","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 3724, 118th Congress: End Woke Higher Education Act. House: 213 Yea, 201 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 19 Sep 2024."}}