Posts Tagged ‘legislation’
Early Victories This Legislative Session
The 2025 legislative session is barely underway, and already we’re seeing victories for parental rights. First, in Virginia, a bill aimed at removing the state’s religious exemption for homeschoolers was defanged in the Senate Committee on Education and Health. Senate Bill 1031 (SB1031), sponsored by Sen. Stella Pekarsky (D-36), underwent numerous edits and rewrites during…
Read MoreThe Start of an Exciting Legislative Ride
Many legislatures across the country are just getting started this week. (If you’re curious, you can see which ones here.) That means lawmakers are getting committee assignments, maybe new offices, and they’re just starting to introduce their 2025 legislation. So, while they’re just gearing up, I had planned to tell you about a couple of…
Read MoreURGENT: Contact Your Indiana Senator Today for Parental Rights Bill
Your parental rights—the liberty to direct the upbringing, education, and care of your minor children according to your own conscience—are not protected under Indiana law. But that can change, starting today. Indiana Senate Bill 143 is being heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee this afternoon. SB143 would establish in Indiana law that parental rights are…
Read MoreElection Report: Parental Rights Edition
Yesterday, America went to the polls to decide who will be President and Vice President, who will serve in the 435 seats of the U.S. House of Representatives, and who will fill roughly one-third of the U.S. Senate (called “Class I”). While many weigh winning or losing by how well one major party did versus…
Read MoreHuntington Beach Joins the Fight for California Children
Some thought it was all over when California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1955 on July 15. That’s the new law that prohibits local school boards from implementing policies to notify parents before socially transitioning their children. In fact, it was only the beginning. As we reported earlier, within a week of the governor’s…
Read MoreParental Rights Win in Tennessee!
On Tuesday, May 28, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law Senate Bill 2749 (SB 2749), the Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act. This law, which takes effect July 1, establishes that “[t]he liberty of a parent to the care, custody, and control of the parent’s child, including the right to direct the upbringing, education, health…
Read MoreParental Rights Progress Pauses in Two States
I am so grateful for the support of readers like you, and the tireless efforts of state lawmakers and volunteers who push to build solid parental rights law at the state level. This year has seen several such efforts across the country, including two that have come to a “pause”: Alabama and Illinois. Alabama In…
Read MoreOur Mission to Capitol Hill April 2-3
Michael Ramey, Patti Sullivan, and Sophia Ramey at the US Capitol April 3, 2024. On April 2 and 3, I went to Capitol Hill with Parental Rights Foundation board member and Florida state coordinator Patti Sullivan to present the Parental Rights Amendment and the Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act to a focused group of congressional…
Read MoreTennessee Parental Rights Bill Advances
The Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville This week, a bill in Tennessee to protect parental rights faced a highly contested subcommittee vote…and passed! House Bill 2936, the Family Rights and Responsibilities Act, was scheduled for a vote in the Children and Family Affairs Subcommittee of the Tennessee House on Tuesday, March 19. Opposing the bill…
Read MoreLawsuit Against Parental Rights in Education Act Settled
According to a press release from the office of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday, March 11, a major lawsuit against the state’s Parental Rights in Education Act will be dismissed. The law, which DeSantis signed in 2022, prohibits classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity in K-3 classrooms. It was supported at the…
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