HR 287 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

CRT Transparency Act

Introduced Jan 11, 2023 Originated House Sponsor Scott Fitzgerald R-WI

Latest action · Jan 11, 2023 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJan 11, 2023
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Curriculum Review of Teachings Transparency Act or the CRT Transparency Act

This bill requires a local educational agency, in order to receive certain federal education grants, to post on a publicly accessible website the curriculum for each grade level of its elementary and secondary schools.

Cosponsors 26

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 11, 2023 to Sep 1, 2023; 19 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-GA	Andrew S. Clyde	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-FL	Bill Posey	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-WI	Bryan Steil	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-FL	Carlos A. Gimenez	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-NC	Dan Bishop	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-CA	Darrell Issa	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-SC	Jeff Duncan	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-FL	Maria Elvira Salazar	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-FL	Matt Gaetz	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-MS	Michael Guest	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-FL	Michael Waltz	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-IL	Mike Bost	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-OH	Mike Carey	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-TX	Ronny Jackson	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-PA	Scott Perry	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-WI	Thomas P. Tiffany	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-NC	Virginia Foxx	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-TX	Wesley Hunt	Original	Jan 11, 2023
R-UT	Burgess Owens		Jan 17, 2023
R-TX	Jake Ellzey		Jan 17, 2023
R-IA	Randy Feenstra		Jan 17, 2023
R-CA	Michelle Steel		Jan 20, 2023
R-WV	Alexander X. Mooney		Jan 26, 2023
R-FL	Byron Donalds		May 22, 2023
R-TX	Monica De La Cruz		Sep 1, 2023

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Jan 11, 2023

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jan 11, 2023Introduced in House
Jan 11, 2023Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 9, January 11, 2023, page H205.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 5162	CRT Transparency Act	Reintroduction of	Sep 3, 2021

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure that local educational agencies applying for certain Federal education funds post the curriculum for elementary and secondary schools online, and for other purposes.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: CRT Transparency Act; Curriculum Review of Teachings Transparency Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 11, 2023Introduced in House

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