Parents Opt-in Protection Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4986 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4986

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

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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 PUPILS' 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: ``, for 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, for such specific 
                        survey.''.
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