Posts Tagged ‘legal news’
Parental Rights Legislation in Indiana, Virginia, and Elsewhere
The 2024 legislative session is in full swing in 40 states, so it’s not surprising that several of them have already introduced bills to address parental rights. In this email, I will focus on a few of these that already demand our attention. Good Indiana Bill Faces Opposition In Indiana, SB 46 would add a…
Read MoreTake Action: New Parental Rights Bill in Congress
This week, Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced S.3571, The Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act (FRRA), in the US Senate. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) introduced the companion bill, H.6934, in the U.S. House. The aim of these bills from a legal standpoint is to protect the traditional, natural role of parents in…
Read MoreCalifornia and Texas on the Same Path
It’s not often we see the California legislature following the same path as Texas. But that’s what happened this year when both states adopted laws to curtail or end anonymous reports to their child abuse hotlines, pushing for confidential reporting instead. Texas passed House Bill 63 on June 9 and it went into effect on…
Read MoreA Conference Week Surprise
On September 20-23, I had the privilege of representing the Parental Rights Foundation to the National Leaders Conference of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), held in Asheville, North Carolina. While I was there, we saw a surprising, even miraculous turnaround on a dreaded California bill. The conference is important to our mission because…
Read MoreStates Sue School Boards Over Parental Rights
First it was New Jersey, and now California: State attorneys general have filed suit against duly elected school boards who have passed policies preventing public school officials (government employees) from keeping secrets from parents about the physical, mental, and social health of the parents’ minor children. And sadly (especially for attorneys general), they seem to…
Read MoreParental Rights Veto Override in North Carolina
It took a special session and a veto override vote in both houses of the legislature, but on August 16 North Carolina passed Senate Bill 49 (SB 49), the Parents’ Bill of Rights. The Senate voted 27-18 in favor of the override and the House voted 72-47 just 26 minutes later. In North Carolina, a…
Read MoreEPPiC Broadcast Launches Seventh Season, Highlights Texas Parental Rights Law
Tuesday, August 8, the Parental Rights Foundation launched the seventh season of our EPPiC Broadcast with an episode featuring Andrew Brown of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. And I couldn’t be more excited. Texas, as you may have heard, passed some spectacular parental rights legislation this year. And I’m not just talking about one good…
Read MoreNorth Carolina Parents’ Bill of Rights Vetoed
On Wednesday, July 5, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper vetoed the “Parents’ Bill of Rights” for North Carolina schools and families. That’s the bad news. The good news is that, in order for him to veto it, the legislature had to pass it, which they did on June 29. (Sadly, both the vote and the…
Read MoreTexas-Sized Wins for Families
This legislative season, while we were supporting and encouraging fundamental parental rights legislation in more than a dozen states, including the ones passed in North Dakota, Iowa, and Alabama, allies were at work promoting some of our other models in the big state of Texas. And they came away with some real Texas-sized wins for…
Read MoreParental Rights Fundamental in 18 States
On June 16, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law House Bill 6, a bill championed by State Representative Kenneth Paschal to codify parental rights as fundamental in the state’s code. The bill was based closely on the model bill that we drafted and recently presented to the American Legislative Exchange Council, so we were…
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