The House of Representatives passed a slate of bipartisan higher education bills late Monday aimed at tackling some of the easier policy aspects of the Higher Education Act– the behemoth federal law that’s overdue for an update but likely won’t get a complete overhaul this year.

The piecemeal approach isn’t a new tactic for Rep. John Kline, a Minnesota Republican and chairman of the chamber’s Committee on Education and the Workforce, who used thesame strategy in 2014 in hopes of getting a jump-start on the more complicated federal law.