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H.R. 5505119th CongressEducation
Equal Campus Access Act of 2026
Sponsored by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) · 14 active : 14 Republicans
Latest action: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 730.
Where it standsBefore the House35 representatives score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- House: next
- Senate: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govEqual Campus Access Act of 2025
This bill prohibits funding made available under the Higher Education Act of 1965 from being provided to any public institution of higher education (IHE) that denies certain campus rights to religious student organizations.
Specifically, the bill prohibits a public IHE from receiving these funds if it denies a religious student organization any right, benefit, or privilege that is otherwise afforded to other student organizations at the IHE because of the religious student organization's beliefs, practices, speech, leadership standards, or standards of conduct.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Education and Workforce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Education programs funding
- Higher education
- Religion
- School administration
How the Senate breaks down
- 7Swing 70–100
- 65Middle 30–70
- 28Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score. The bill is not before the Senate right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
14 activeShow all 14 cosponsors
- Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY-AL)
- Mary E. Miller (R-IL-15)
- Nathaniel Moran (R-TX-1)
- Randy K. Sr. Weber (R-TX-14)
- Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL-4)
- Robert F. Onder (R-MO-3)
- Julia Letlow (R-LA-5)
- Mark Harris (R-NC-8)
- Mark B. Messmer (R-IN-8)
- Erin Houchin (R-IN-9)
- Bill Huizenga (R-MI-4)
- Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN-3)
- Mike Bost (R-IL-12)
- Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA-9)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
