HF4024 Summary

• ALS Research Funding: Reduces ALS research appropriation from $20 million to $396,000 in fiscal year 2023, with $19.6 million for fiscal year 2024 to support competitive grants through the Office of Higher Education.

• Student Aid Programs: Increases funding for Hunger-Free Campus Grants to $1 million and Fostering Independence Higher Education Grants to $9.456 million in FY2025; modifies North Star Promise scholarship to $112.186 million.

• Sexual Misconduct Policies: Strengthens campus sexual misconduct policies with comprehensive definitions, victim protections, mandatory training, online reporting systems, and confidential resource requirements; effective August 1, 2025.

• Student Support Protections: Creates navigators for parenting students, protections for pregnant/parenting students (leaves, accommodations, early registration), and disability accommodation requirements including simplified documentation processes.

• Institutional Regulations: Modifies requirements for online program management companies (prohibits tuition-sharing and faculty IP ownership), increases bonding authority from $1.3 billion to $2 billion, strengthens transcript access restrictions, and expands "physical presence" definitions for school regulation.