Schools must tell pregnant students about their rights and help.
H.R. 6359 — Pregnant Students’ Rights Act · Filed by Ashley Hinson (R-IA) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Dec 2, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill makes schools that get government money tell pregnant students about their legal rights. Schools must share this information each year through email, handbooks, orientation, health centers, and websites. The bill does not create new rights. It only requires schools to tell students about rights that already exist under Title IX.
Who it affects
Pregnant and parenting students at schools that get government money are affected. Schools must provide the information, but the bill does not cost students money.
One thing to notice
The bill requires schools to tell students about existing rights. It does not require schools to add new help or programs.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 3 Republicans.
- Dec 2, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Dec 2, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
- Jan 8, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jan 8, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 21 - 15”
- Jan 22, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 217 - 211 (Roll no. 47).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $575,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 29 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Ashley Hinson, who sponsored the bill, received $954,500 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Susan B Anthony List — $420,000 in 1 report
- National Assn of Independent Colleges & Universities — $155,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Title IX — A federal law that stops discrimination based on sex at schools.
- government money — Money that the U.S. government gives to schools and colleges.
- 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 (2,564 characters) on Jul 11, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 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 Jun 2026. 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 Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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