James Risch (R-ID)

Say No to Indoctrination Act

A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to prevent the use of funds under such Act to teach or advance concepts related to gender ideology, and for other purposes.

S. 2251 · Senate bill Education

A Republican bill with 8 Republican cosponsors · See all 8 cosponsors

Last activity — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

What this bill would do

This bill, titled the "Say No to Indoctrination Act," seeks to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The primary goal is to prevent the use of funds under that Act to teach or advance concepts related to gender ideology. It specifically incorporates the definition of gender ideology found in section 2 of Executive Order 14168. The legislation would insert a new prohibition into the existing law.