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HR 106 114th Congress House

Restoration of Parental Rights and State Sovereignty Act of 2015

Official title: To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to restore State sovereignty over public education and parental rights over the education of their children.

Introduced: January 6, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Apr 29, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Jan 6, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Jan 6, 2015
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 Latest action April 29, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Restoration of Parental Rights and State Sovereignty Act of 2015

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to prohibit the Secretary of Education from forcing a state to satisfy any requirement imposed as a condition of receiving assistance under an ESEA grant program.

Prohibits the Secretary from releasing assistance to a state under an ESEA grant program unless the state's legislature has by law expressly approved the program. Allows that approval to be accomplished by a vote to affirm a state budget that includes the use of such federal funds, but requires that budget to expressly include any requirement imposed as a condition on the state's receipt of those funds.

Prohibits ESEA funds that are not allocated to a state due to the state's failure to affirmatively agree to their receipt from being reallocated among the other states.

Expresses the intent of Congress that control over public education and parental rights to control their children's education is vested exclusively within the authority reserved to the states and individual Americans by the Constitution, except when states expressly approve federal terms or conditions on educational assistance or the federal government is obliged to enforce minimum federal equal protection or due process standards.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 106: Restoration of Parental Rights and State Sovereignty Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-106/
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"H.R. 106: Restoration of Parental Rights and State Sovereignty Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-106/.
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