H.R. 10178

[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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