S. 5470

Protecting our Students in Schools Act of 2026

Sponsor: Christopher Murphy

4 cosponsors

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Introduced Sep 23
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Introduced Sep 23
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sep 23)

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Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents

Sec. 2. Purposes

Sec. 3. Definitions

I Prohibition of Corporal Punishment

Sec. 101. Prohibition of corporal punishment

Sec. 102. Civil actions by the Attorney General

Sec. 103. Enforcement by the Office for Civil Rights

Sec. 104. Parent notification and protection and advocacy systems

II State Activities and Grant Program

Sec. 201. State plan and enforcement

Sec. 202. Grant authority

III Additional Provisions

Sec. 301. Federal regulations

Sec. 302. Other schools

(a) Department of Defense. The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that schools operated or funded by the Department of Defense Education Activity or otherwise operated or funded by the Department of Defense for the education of military-connected dependents comply with the regulations promulgated by the Secretary pursuant to this Act.

(b) Department of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior shall ensure that schools operated or funded by the Department of the Interior comply with the regulations promulgated by the Secretary pursuant to this Act.

Sec. 303. Limitation of authority

Sec. 304. Applicability to private schools and home schools

Sec. 305. Severability

Sec. 306. Authorization of appropriations