PROTECT Kids Act
Bill: S.4892 | Sponsor: Sen. Scott, Tim (R-SC)
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Parental Rights Over the Education and Care of Their Kids Act or the PROTECT Kids Act
This bill requires elementary and middle schools, as a condition of receiving federal funds, to obtain parental consent under specified circumstances.
Specifically, an elementary school or a school consisting of only grades 5-8 must obtain parental consent before (1) changing a minor child's gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name on any school form; or (2) allowing a child to change the child's sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms.

To require elementary and middle schools that receive Federal funds to 
obtain parental consent before changing a minor child's gender markers, 
  pronouns, or preferred name on any school form, allowing a child to 
change the child's sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or 
                               bathrooms.

    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 ``Parental Rights Over the Education 
and Care of Their Kids Act'' or the ``PROTECT Kids Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The law in the United States has long recognized the 
        importance of parental rights. A parent's right to oversee the 
        care and education of their child is guaranteed by the 
        Fourteenth Amendment.
            (2) Parents have a fundamental, constitutionally guaranteed 
        right to raise and educate their children in the way that they 
        choose.
            (3) Public schools across the country are violating these 
        fundamental parental and familial rights by deliberately hiding 
        information about gender transitioning children from their 
        parents.
            (4) School staff in Montgomery County Public Schools in 
        Maryland instruct teachers to form ``gender transition plans'' 
        for students without the knowledge or consent of the student's 
        family.
            (5) An Iowa public school district was sued for allowing 
        children as young as 12 to create ``gender support plans'' 
        without the knowledge or consent of the students' parents.
            (6) Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia has required 
        all teachers to complete a training program saying that 
        parental permission is not required for students who seek to be 
        addressed by different names or pronouns.
            (7) Regardless of their intentions, these schools are 
        sabotaging the parent-child relationship and encouraging 
        children to keep secrets from the adults who are charged with 
        protecting and defending them--their parents.
            (8) Children do best when their parents are actively 
        involved in their education. School districts, activist 
        organizations, and teachers unions must never be allowed to 
        intrude on parental rights by concealing critical information 
        from parents about their children.

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT RELATED TO GENDER MARKERS, PRONOUNS, AND PREFERRED 
              NAMES ON SCHOOL FORMS.

    As a condition of receiving Federal funds, any elementary school 
(as such term is defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)) or school that 
consists of only middle grades (as such term is defined in such 
section), that receives Federal funds shall be required to obtain 
parental consent before--
            (1) changing a minor child's gender markers, pronouns, or 
        preferred name on any school form; or
            (2) allowing a child to change the child's sex-based 
        accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms.
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