Protecting Students from Sexually Explicit Materials Act

Congress finds the following:

(1) Parents entrust the Nation’s elementary and secondary schools to give their children a rigorous education and a grounding in the history and founding principles of the United States.

(2) Parents across the Nation have raised concerns that some schools present contested ideological concepts to students as settled fact, while limiting parents’ ability to review curriculum and instructional materials.

(3) The Supreme Court has long recognized the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children, including in Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923), Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925), and Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000).

(4) On January 29, 2025, the President issued Executive Order 14190, entitled Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling (90 Fed. Reg. 8853).

(5) Executive Order 14190 requires that it be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.