H.R. 5327 · 118th Congress
Empowering Parents Act
Key: what the circles and colors mean
Each circle is a bill. The ring fills as it moves through Congress:
Under the number: the Yea · Nay count of its final (or latest) recorded vote. On a member's page, the small badge is how that member voted: Y Yea / Aye, N Nay / No, P Present, – Not voting.
Gold and violet are only for Yea and Nay; they never mean a party. A member's party is the letter on their photo.
Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 118th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.
R
GoodSponsor4 cosponsors · 4 R
3 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.
This bill prohibits certain actions by public elementary and secondary schools.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Sep 1, 2023
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.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Empowering Parents Act
Latest action (Sep 1, 2023): Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Policy area: Education · Origin: House · Introduced: Sep 1, 2023
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.