Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act
Latest action · Jul 5, 2024 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 476.
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.
- IntroducedJun 7, 2024
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act
This bill requires each local educational agency (LEA), as a condition of receiving federal elementary and secondary education funds, to ensure that each elementary and secondary school served by the LEA notifies parents of their rights to request and receive information regarding foreign influence (e.g., influence by China) in schools.
These rights include the right to
- review (and make copies of at no cost) any curricular or professional development material used at the school that was obtained using funds received from a foreign government or a foreign entity of concern;
- know, by written response, how many school personnel are compensated using funds received from a foreign government or a foreign entity of concern; and
- know, by written response, information about funding from or agreements (e.g., contracts) with a foreign country or a foreign entity of concern.
Parents must submit a written request for this information.
Each school must post on a publicly accessible website (or otherwise widely disseminate to the public) a summary notice of parental rights under the bill.
The bill requires the Department of Education to notify state educational agencies (SEAs) about the bill's requirements. Each SEA must, as a condition of receiving federal elementary and secondary education funds, notify LEAs about the bill's requirements.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
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 Jun 7, 2024Markup Jun 13, 2024Reported Jul 5, 2024 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 5, 2024Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 118-575.
- Jul 5, 2024Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 476.
- Jun 13, 2024Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jun 13, 2024Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 16.
- Jun 7, 2024Introduced in House
- Jun 7, 2024Referred 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.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Jun 18, 2024H.R. 8649, Transparency in Reporting Adversarial Contributions to Education ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on June 13, 2024
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 170, no. 97, June 7, 2024, page H3680.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 118-16 | GETTING BACK ON TRACK: EXPLORING RAIL SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE AND CHALLENGES112 pages | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | May 11, 2023 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 4822 | Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act | Identical bill | Jul 29, 2024 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To ensure that parents are aware of foreign influence in their child's public school, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act
- Short Title(s) as Reported to House
- Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Education.
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 5, 2024Reported in House
- Jun 7, 2024Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
