HR 7894
Advanced toward a vote
Restructures the Truman Scholarship Foundation's board, limits political affiliation among its members and recipients, adds conduct and public-service conditions for scholarship payments, and requires the foundation to keep its public materials unaltered.
Official title: Truman Scholarship Clean House Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
12-MAR-2026
Referred
12-MAR-2026
Approved by committee
17-MAR-2026
Reported
02-JUL-2026
On the calendar
02-JUL-2026
- Sets the Foundation's board at 13 members, with eight appointed by the President and no more than four from the same political party.
- Dissolves the current board 90 days after enactment and requires new appointments under the revised structure.
- Bars selecting or continuing payments for students who are convicted of a felony, suspended or expelled for code violations, or who lead a student organization involved in a suspended or expelled organization's misconduct.
- Requires repayment with 6 percent interest if payments stop or a recipient does not work in public service for three of the first seven years after the graduate degree.
- Requires press releases, program announcements, and recipient biographies to stay publicly available and unaltered, with any edits clearly marked.
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Reported to House, 02-JUL-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.govEducation
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