[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10178 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10178

To amend the General Education Provisions Act to require certain local 
     educational agencies to notify parents before distributing or 
 disseminating information about abortion or abortion-related services 
                  to students, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 27, 2026

Mr. Steube (for himself, Ms. Hageman, Mrs. Biggs of South Carolina, and 
Mrs. Harshbarger) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                the Committee on Education and Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the General Education Provisions Act to require certain local 
     educational agencies to notify parents before distributing or 
 disseminating information about abortion or abortion-related services 
                  to students, and for other purposes.

    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 ``School Health and Instructional 
Environment Limits and Disclosure Act'' or the ``SHIELD Act''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTIONS ON DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION ABOUT ABORTION AT 
              SCHOOLS.

    Section 445(c) of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 
1232h(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(C), by adding at the end the 
        following:
                            ``(iv) Activities involving the 
                        distribution or dissemination of information 
                        about abortion or abortion-related services to 
                        students.'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (5) and (6) as paragraphs 
        (6) and (7), respectively;
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
            ``(5) Prohibition on certain organizations distributing 
        abortion-related information.--A local educational agency that 
        receives funds under any applicable program may not allow any 
        organization that provides abortions (or a subsidiary of such 
        an organization), including an abortion service provider, to 
        distribute or disseminate information about abortion or 
        abortion-related services to students on school grounds or a 
        virtual platform of the local educational agency (including 
        sharing or reposting such information on behalf of such outside 
        organization on social media).''; and
            (4) in paragraph (7), as so redesignated, by adding at the 
        end the following:
                    ``(H) Abortion-related service.--The term 
                `abortion-related service' means any medical, surgical, 
                or support care directly related to terminating the 
                pregnancy of a woman.''.
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