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SHIELD Act

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.

Introduced Aug 27, 2026

Latest action (Aug 27, 2026) Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Referred to
Education and Workforce Committee
Policy area
Education
Issues
Abortion

Summary
  • Requires local educational agencies to notify parents before distributing or disseminating information about abortion or abortion-related services to students.
  • Prohibits organizations that provide abortions from distributing information about abortion or abortion-related services to students on school grounds or school virtual platforms.
  • Defines "abortion-related service" as any medical, surgical, or support care directly related to terminating pregnancy.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
6 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to W. Gregory Steube’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • CHENEY BROTHERS $7,800
  • NEXTGEN MANAGEMENT $6,600
  • STEPHENS, INC. $6,600
  • NEPTUNE WELLNESS SOLUTIONS $6,600
  • COOLTODAY $6,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for W. Gregory Steube → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Aug 27, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
  2. Aug 27, 2026 Introduced in House

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Aug 27, 2026

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Full text

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

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.”. <all>

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