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S. 2859119th CongressEducation
Equal Campus Access Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) · 30 active : 30 Republicans
Latest action: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
Where it standsBefore the Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: 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
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · SenateHearings by (full committee) · Referred to
Subjects
- Education programs funding
- Higher education
- Religion
- School administration
How the Senate breaks down
- 6Swing 70–100
- 50Middle 30–70
- 44Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
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.
- 1
Susan M. CollinsRepublican · Maine · Lean D+4Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
30 activeShow all 30 cosponsors
- Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)
- James E. Risch (R-ID)
- Jim Banks (R-IN)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- John Kennedy (R-LA)
- Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Mike Rounds (R-SD)
- Pete Ricketts (R-NE)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Ted Budd
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.
