Schools must tell parents about foreign money and deals.
H.R. 1049 — Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act · Filed by Aaron Bean (R-FL) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 6, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
Schools that get federal money must show parents school materials and staff pay. They must also show gifts or deals involving foreign governments. Parents can ask for this in writing. Schools must answer within 30 days. Schools must post a notice about these rights on their website each school year.
Who it affects
Parents can now ask schools about foreign money or deals affecting their kids' education. Schools must set up a way to track and answer these requests on time.
One thing to notice
Schools must answer parent requests within 30 days. The bill does not say what happens if they do not. The bill does not give schools extra money to handle these new requests.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 3 Republicans.
- Feb 6, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 6, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
- Feb 12, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Feb 12, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 13”
- Dec 4, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 247 - 166 (Roll no. 314). (text: CR 12/3/2025 H5008)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Dec 2025 to Dec 2025.
Those reports show $290,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 89 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Aaron Bean, who sponsored the bill, received $1,258,650 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Fdd Action — $290,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- federal money — Money the U.S. government gives to schools.
- school materials — Books, lessons, and other things schools use to teach.
- foreign governments — Governments of other countries.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,857 characters) on Jul 8, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,938 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-05.
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