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    <item congress="119" measure-type="s" measure-number="227" measure-id="id119s227" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2025-01-23" update-date="2025-03-17">
        <title>PEACE Act of 2025</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119s227v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2025-03-17">
            <action-date>2025-01-23</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Protect Equality And Civics Education Act of 2025 or the PEACE Act</strong> <strong>of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits the use of federal funding made available for the American History and Civics Education program to fund a curriculum, teaching, or counseling that promotes a divisive concept (e.g., race stereotyping or scapegoating) under the priorities noticed in the Department of Education's proposed rule titled <em>Proposed Priorities-American History and Civics Education</em>, published on April 19, 2021.</p>]]></summary-text>
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