Pregnant Students’ Rights Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require all institutions of higher education participating in federal programs to disseminate information to students about the rights, accommodations, and resources available to pregnant students who wish to carry a pregnancy to term. Schools must share this information via annual email, student handbooks, orientations, health/counseling centers, and their public websites.
Who Benefits and How
Pregnant college students who wish to continue their pregnancies benefit from increased awareness of campus and community resources, available accommodations, and their Title IX complaint rights. Pro-life advocacy organizations benefit from an institutional framework that specifically promotes carrying pregnancies to term. Students broadly gain awareness of existing Title IX protections for pregnant students.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Colleges and universities bear new administrative and compliance costs for developing and disseminating the required information across multiple channels. Institutions must compile resource lists, accommodation details, and complaint procedures specifically framed around carrying pregnancies to term. The bill notably limits its scope to information about carrying to term, not pregnancy-related decisions broadly, which may create an imbalanced information environment.
Key Provisions
- Requires institutions to compile and share campus and community resources for pregnant students carrying to term
- Mandates information about accommodations for carrying to term and post-birth parenting
- Requires information about filing Title IX complaints related to discrimination based on carrying to term
- Specifies multiple dissemination channels: annual email, handbooks, orientations, health centers, and websites
- Includes a rule of construction limiting the Secretary of Education from expanding requirements beyond what the bill specifies
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires colleges and universities receiving federal funds to inform pregnant students of their rights, accommodations, and resources for carrying a pregnancy to term.
Key Policy Areas
Higher Education, Reproductive Policy, Civil Rights
Primary Purpose
Requires colleges and universities receiving federal funds to inform pregnant students of their rights, accommodations, and resources for carrying a pregnancy to term.
Policy Domains
Pregnant Students Information Requirements
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Pregnant college students who wish to carry to term
- Pro-life advocacy organizations
- Students unaware of existing Title IX pregnancy protections
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Colleges and universities (compliance costs)
- Campus administrators responsible for student communications
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedCloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not …
Cloture motion on the motion to proceed presented in Senate. …
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. …
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under …
Read the second time and placed on the calendar
Introduced in Senate
Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on …
Mrs. Moody (for herself, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Budd, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "doe"
- → Department of Education
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Education
- "institutions"
- → Institutions of higher education
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