Students Before Unions Act

Bill: 117-hr-1498
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Good, Bob [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2021-03-02
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Education programs funding

Elementary and secondary education

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Labor-management relations

Teaching, teachers, curricula
Latest action: action_date: 2021-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Students Before Unions Act</strong></p> <p>This bill requires local educational agencies, as a condition of receiving certain elementary and secondary school emergency relief subgrants, to publicly disclose negotiations with labor organizations (e.g., teacher unions) that are related to providing in-person instruction.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1498 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 2, 2021 Mr. Good of Virginia (for himself, Ms. Foxx , Mr. Budd , Mr. Cawthorn , Mr. Gohmert , Mrs. Harshbarger , Ms. Herrell , and Mr. Norman ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To require that local educational agencies disclose negotiations with teacher unions as a condition for eligibility to receive funds under the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund of the Education Stabilization Fund of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Students Before Unions Act . 2. Conditions for receipt of funds Section 313(c) of division M of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 ( Public Law 116–260 ) is amended by inserting before the period the following: , except that a local educational agency may not receive a subgrant under this subsection unless any negotiations between the local educational agency and a labor organization with respect to the conditions for the provision of in-person instruction are documented in writing and made public .