HR 5546 Re-checks Congress.gov for new actions and updates the bill's status, and fills in any sponsors, committees, or related bills that are missing. It does not re-pull sponsors/cosponsors/committees/related — those rarely change — and it skips all work if nothing has changed upstream, so it's cheap to click.
Combating Hate Across Campus Act
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to track and record additional information on hate crimes, and for other purposes.
Summary
The Combating Hate Across Campus Act would amend the Higher Education Act to require colleges and universities to provide more detailed hate crime statistics. Instead of reporting hate crimes only by broad category of prejudice, institutions would need to disaggregate the data by the specific identity of targeted individuals or groups. The disaggregation requirements would follow the FBI's Hate Crime Data Collection Guidelines and Training Manual. This change would apply to the campus crime statistics that institutions of higher education are required to disclose. The bill would provide more granular information about hate crimes occurring on college campuses.
AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.
Sponsor (1)
Actions (2)
- Sep 23, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
- Sep 23, 2025 Introduced in House
Similar bills (6)
Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.
Text versions (1)
Bills are re-published as they move (Introduced → Reported → Engrossed → Enrolled …). Each stage below is a separate text; pick two to see what changed. Data from Congress.gov.
Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 23, 2025
Mr. Espaillat introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to track and record additional information on hate crimes, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Combating Hate Across Campus Act”.
SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF CAMPUS SECURITY POLICY AND CAMPUS CRIME STATISTICS.
Section 485(f)(1)(F)(ii) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1092(f)(1)(F)(ii)) is amended by striking “which data shall be collected and reported according to category of prejudice;” and inserting “which data shall—
“(I) be collected and reported according to category of prejudice; and
“(II) disaggregated by subcategory based on the identity of the targeted individual or group, as listed in the most recently available Hate Crime Data Collection Guidelines and Training Manual published by the Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;”. <all>
Comments