HR 5327 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

Empowering Parents Act

Introduced Sep 1, 2023 Originated House Sponsor Bob Good R-VA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Sep 1, 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.

  1. IntroducedSep 1, 2023
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Empowering Parents Act

This bill prohibits certain actions by public elementary and secondary schools.

Specifically, the bill prohibits schools from

  • compelling a teacher or student to adopt, affirm, adhere to, or profess certain ideas (e.g., that the United States is fundamentally racist or sexist) or any idea in violation of Title IV or Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964;
  • compelling a student to observe or espouse obscene or sexual materials without parental consent;
  • instructing or requiring an employee to refer to a student using a pronoun not associated with the biological sex of the student without parental consent;
  • acting as the agent of a parent for purposes of providing verifiable parental consent or receiving a notice or other information required to be provided to a parent; or
  • neglecting to report sexual assault or sexual harassment on school property to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.

A parent aggrieved by conduct prohibited under the bill may commerce a civil action against the school.

Cosponsors 4

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 1, 2023 to Sep 22, 2023, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-AZAndy BiggsOriginalSep 1, 2023
R-CADoug LaMalfaOriginalSep 1, 2023
R-ILMary E. MillerOriginalSep 1, 2023
R-AZElijah CraneSep 22, 2023

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Sep 1, 2023Introduced in House
  2. Sep 1, 2023Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Subjects

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

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  1. Sep 1, 2023Introduced in House

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