Legislation· Mar 2023Sponsored by Julia Letlow (R)
Parents Bill of Rights Act
Would have required schools to give parents more rights to review curriculum, budgets, and library books.
Tradeoff
Would have required schools receiving federal funds to share curricula and budgets with parents. Would also have required parental consent before some elementary and middle schools changed a child's name or pronouns.
What's in it
The House passed it 213-208 on March 24, 2023, and the Senate never voted before the Congress ended.
House
Introduced
(Mar 1, 2023)
House
Committee on Education and the Workforce(Mar 1, 2023)
House
The Committee on Education and the Workforce voted to send it to the floor
Reported 25 - 17(Mar 9, 2023)
Committee report H. Rept. 118-9.
House
On
Failed(Roll #160 · Mar 24, 2023)
203 yeanay 218House
Passage of the bill
Passed(Roll #161 · Mar 24, 2023)
213 yeanay 208Senate
Received from the House
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions(Mar 27, 2023)
- Steve Scalise (R-LA)
- Tom Emmer (R-MN)
- Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY)
- Mike Johnson (R-LA)
- Richard Hudson (R-NC)
- Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
- Mary E. Miller (R-IL)
- Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI)
- Joe Wilson (R-SC)
- Glenn Thompson (R-PA)
- Glenn Grothman (R-WI)
- Rick W. Allen (R-GA)
- Jim Banks (R-IN)
- Lloyd Smucker (R-PA)
- Burgess Owens (R-UT)
- Michelle Steel (R-CA)
- Aaron Bean (R-FL)
- Brandon Williams (R-NY)
- Erin Houchin (R-IN)
- Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA)
- John R. Moolenaar (R-MI)
- Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA)
- Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
- Clay Higgins (R-LA)
- Brad Finstad (R-MN)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY)
- Scott DesJarlais (R-TN)
- Pat Fallon (R-TX)
- Mike Kelly (R-PA)
- Chuck Edwards (R-NC)
- Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI)
- Jerry L. Carl (R-AL)
- Ken Calvert (R-CA)
- David G. Valadao (R-CA)
- Ashley Hinson (R-IA)
- Ralph Norman (R-SC)
- Mike Bost (R-IL)
- Daniel Meuser (R-PA)
- Michael Waltz (R-FL)
- David Kustoff (R-TN)
- Mike Garcia (R-CA)
- Brett Guthrie (R-KY)
- Nancy Mace (R-SC)
- Bryan Steil (R-WI)
- Brad R. Wenstrup (R-OH)
- John H. Rutherford (R-FL)
- Garret Graves (R-LA)
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
- Jeff Duncan (R-SC)
- Max L. Miller (R-OH)
- Tom McClintock (R-CA)
- Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)
- Alexander X. Mooney (R-WV)
- Lance Gooden (R-TX)
- Carlos A. Gimenez (R-FL)
- Diana Harshbarger (R-TN)
- Michael Guest (R-MS)
- Tony Gonzales (R-TX)
- Bill Huizenga (R-MI)
- Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL)
- Troy Balderson (R-OH)
- Robert J. Wittman (R-VA)
- David Rouzer (R-NC)
- Eric A. "Rick" Crawford (R-AR)
- Mike Ezell (R-MS)
- Mike Carey (R-OH)
- Kat Cammack (R-FL)
- Ryan K. Zinke (R-MT)
- Michael T. McCaul (R-TX)
- John Joyce (R-PA)
- Kevin Hern (R-OK)
- Jake Ellzey (R-TX)
- Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY)
- Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
- Ron Estes (R-KS)
- Laurel M. Lee (R-FL)
- W. Gregory Steube (R-FL)
- Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ)
- Randy Feenstra (R-IA)
- Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
- Roger Williams (R-TX)
- Anthony D'Esposito (R-NY)
- Tracey Mann (R-KS)
- Darin LaHood (R-IL)
- Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)
- Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ)
- Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR)
- Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY)
- Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY)
- Larry Bucshon (R-IN)
- Jake LaTurner (R-KS)
- Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL)
- A. Drew, IV Ferguson (R-GA)
- Bill Posey (R-FL)
- Troy E. Nehls (R-TX)
- Mark E. Amodei (R-NV)
- Michelle Fischbach (R-MN)
- Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK)
- Doug LaMalfa (R-CA)
- Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA)
- James R. Baird (R-IN)
- Nathaniel Moran (R-TX)
- Andrew Ogles (R-TN)
- C. Scott Franklin (R-FL)
- Marcus J. Molinaro (R-NY)
- Brian Babin (R-TX)
- George Santos (R-NY)
- Tim Walberg (R-MI)
- Trent Kelly (R-MS)
- Mark E. Green (R-TN)
- Ben Cline (R-VA)
- Lauren Boebert (R-CO)
- Zachary Nunn (R-IA)
- Pete Stauber (R-MN)
- Michael C. Burgess (R-TX)
- Derrick Van Orden (R-WI)
- Dusty Johnson (R-SD)
- Debbie Lesko (R-AZ)
- Wesley Hunt (R-TX)
- Ronny Jackson (R-TX)
Passage votes· Mar 24, 2023· 118th Congress · 2023–2025