To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure that personally identifiable information provided in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid is not used for immigration enforcement, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 9134 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9134 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure that personally identifiable information provided in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid is not used for immigration enforcement, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 3, 2026 Ms. Randall (for herself, Mr. Casar, Ms. Norton, and Mr. Liccardo) 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 ensure that personally identifiable information provided in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid is not used for immigration enforcement, 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 ``Protecting Student Privacy Act''. SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION. Part G of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1088 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: ``SEC. 494A. PROHIBITION ON USE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION FOR IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES. ``(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in subsection (b), no Federal student aid information may be-- ``(1) shared with or used by the Department of Homeland Security, any other Federal agency that has immigration enforcement authority, or a State or local agency that has in effect an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security under section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357) for the purposes of immigration enforcement; or ``(2) treated as information subject