[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4854 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4854

To amend title 36, United States Code, to repeal the Federal charter of 
                  the National Education Association.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 14, 2022

 Mrs. Blackburn (for herself and Ms. Lummis) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 36, United States Code, to repeal the Federal charter of 
                  the National Education Association.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Education Association 
Charter Repeal Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

            (1) The National Education Association (referred to in this 
        section as the ``NEA'') was chartered in 1906 by an Act of 
        Congress for the purpose ``to elevate the character and advance 
        the interests of the profession of teaching; and to promote the 
        cause of education in the United States'' and remains the only 
        labor union that has a Federal charter.
            (2) The NEA is expected to uphold the honor and legitimacy 
        that a Federal charter grants to an organization.
            (3) The NEA can no longer be considered a public service 
        worthy of its Federal charter as it has drifted substantially 
        from its core mission and has become a massive political 
        operation dedicated to imposing a radical progressive agenda on 
        schools in the United States.
            (4) The NEA and its political agenda are often at cross-
        purposes with parents, teachers, and students, and the NEA no 
        longer primarily serves the purposes of advancing the 
        profession of teaching or promoting the cause of education in 
        the United States.
            (5) According to disclosures made to the Department of 
        Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards, from September 
        2019 through August 2021, the NEA spent over $116,700,000 on 
        political activities and lobbying, and in the 2020 election 
        cycle, 95.7 percent of the candidate campaign contributions 
        made by the NEA went to candidates in the Democratic party.
            (6) In July 2021, the NEA adopted measures to support 
        critical race theory, calling it reasonable and appropriate, 
        and to spend $56,500 on researching and shaming organizations 
        that are fighting the inclusion of critical race theory in 
        schools.
            (7) In December 2021, NEA board member Mollie Page Mumau 
        published a social media post calling for the death of 
        individuals who decide not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
            (8) In July 2022, the NEA adopted measures to spend 
        $140,000 to create an enemies list of parents and groups that 
        disagree with teaching gender identity and sexual orientation 
        in classrooms.
            (9) The NEA and other teacher unions stood in the way of 
        reopening schools in 2020 and 2021 by threatening strikes, 
        lobbying to keep schools closed, and influencing the Centers 
        for Disease Control and Prevention to make it harder for 
        schools to reopen.
            (10) In August 2022, the National Center for Education 
        Statistics (NCES) conducted a special administration of the 
        National Assessment of Education Progress long-term trend 
        reading and mathematics assessments for age 9 students to 
        examine student achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 
        NCES reported the largest average score decline in reading 
        since 1990, and the first ever score decline in mathematics.

SEC. 3. REPEAL OF NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION CHARTER.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 1511 of title 36, United States Code, is 
repealed.
    (b) Table of Chapters.--The table of chapters at the beginning of 
part B of subtitle II of title 36, United States Code, is amended by 
striking the item relating to chapter 1511.
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