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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H.R. 4986 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 733
119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4986

                          [Report No. 119-836]

To amend the General Education Provisions Act to ensure that a student 
  is not required to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation that 
reveals personal information about such student or their family without 
                         prior written consent.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 15, 2025

    Mrs. Miller of Illinois (for herself, Mr. Cloud, Mr. Harris of 
Maryland, Ms. Boebert, Mr. Self, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Babin, Mr. Burlison, 
    Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, and Mrs. Harshbarger) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                               Workforce

                           September 24, 2026

    Additional sponsors: Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mrs. Biggs of South 
Carolina, Mr. Gill of Texas, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Nehls, Mrs. Fedorchak, and 
                           Mr. Moore of Utah

                           September 24, 2026

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on August 
                               15, 2025]


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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the General Education Provisions Act to ensure that a student 
  is not required to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation that 
reveals personal information about such student or their family without 
                         prior written consent.


 


    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Parents Opt-in Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTION OF PUPIL RIGHTS.

    Section 445 of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 
1232h) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking ``prior consent of the student'' 
                and inserting ``prior written consent of the student''; 
                and
                    (B) by inserting before the period at the end the 
                following: ``, with respect to each such specific 
                survey, analysis, or evaluation''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)(2)(A)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of clause (i);
                    (B) in clause (ii), by striking ``subparagraph 
                (C).'' and inserting ``clause (i) or (iii) of 
                subparagraph (C); and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iii) not require a student to submit to 
                        a survey described in subparagraph (C)(ii) 
                        without the prior written consent of the 
                        student (if the student is an adult or 
                        emancipated minor), or in the case of an 
                        unemancipated minor, without the prior written 
                        consent of the parent, with respect to each 
                        such specific survey.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 733

119th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 4986

                          [Report No. 119-836]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To amend the General Education Provisions Act to ensure that a student 
  is not required to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation that 
reveals personal information about such student or their family without 
                         prior written consent.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 24, 2026

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed