Joni Ernst

Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025

To provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.

To establish a National STEM Week to promote American innovation and enhance STEM education pathways for all students, including those in rural, urban, and underserved communities.

Designating the week beginning October 20, 2024, as National Character Counts Week.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to combat campus sexual assault, and for other purposes.

To establish requirements for investigations of certain complaints of discrimination.

To reauthorize traumatic brain injury programs, and for other purposes.

To prohibit the United States from collaborating with certain foreign countries of concern on fundamental research intended to support the military, intelligence, or security capabilities of the United States, to strengthen the security and integrity of the United States scientific and research enterprise, and for other purposes.

To expand eligibility for Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit participation.

Condemning the violent, anti-American and anti-Israel protests that are occurring on campuses of institutions of higher education nationwide.

To provide that individuals convicted of certain crimes relating to institutions of higher education are ineligible for Federal student financial assistance under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.

Strongly condemning the rise of antisemitism on campuses of institutions of higher education across the United States.

To amend title 10, United States Code, to clarify roles and responsibilities within the Department of Defense relating to subconcussive and concussive brain injuries and to improve brain health initiatives of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.

To affirm and protect the First Amendment rights of students and student organizations at public institutions of higher education.

Supporting the goals and ideals of Career and Technical Education Month.

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require additional information in disclosures of foreign gifts and contracts from foreign sources, restrict contracts with certain foreign entities and foreign countries of concern, require certain staff and faculty to report foreign gifts and contracts, and require disclosure of certain foreign investments within endowments.

Recognizing the University of Iowa women’s basketball team’s historic Crossover at Kinnick game and the importance of women's sports.

Expressing support for the designation of October 1 through October 7, 2023, as National 4–H Week.

Designating the week beginning October 15, 2023, as National Character Counts Week.

Supporting the designation of September 21, 2023, as National Teach Ag Day and celebrating 75 years of the National Association of Agricultural Educators.