H.R. 1049House bill · 119th CongressIn the SenateEducation

Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act

Sponsored byAaron BeanR-FL-4Introduced Feb 6, 2025Full text on congress.gov ↗

Latest action (Dec 4, 2025) Received in the Senate and Read twice and on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

What it does

Congressional Research Service, Feb 6, 2025

This bill requires each local educational agency (LEA), as a condition of receiving federal elementary and secondary education funds, to ensure that each elementary and secondary school served by the LEA notifies parents of their rights to request and receive information regarding foreign influence (e.g., influence by China) in schools.

These rights include the right to

review (and make copies of at no cost) any curricular or professional development material used at the school that was obtained using funds received from a foreign government or a foreign entity of concern;know, by written response, how many school personnel are compensated using funds received from a foreign government or a foreign entity of concern; andknow, by written response, information about funding from or agreements (e.g., contracts) with a foreign country or a foreign entity of concern.Parents must submit a written request for this information.

Each school must post on a publicly accessible website (or otherwise widely disseminate to the public) a summary notice of parental rights under the bill.

The bill requires the Department of Education to notify state educational agencies (SEAs) about the bill's requirements. Each SEA must, as a condition of receiving federal elementary and secondary education funds, notify LEAs about the bill's requirements.

Face Value

as passed the House
100Narrow

How much of this bill its name accounts for.

  • Every bill starts at100
  • Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.

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What Congress did

1 recorded
  • decisive vote

    House · Dec 4, 2025

    Whether the bill passes the House. This is the vote most people mean.

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