Schools must ask before selling student voter data.
S. 5408 — Student Voter Data Protection Act · Filed by Mike Lee (R-UT) · Introduced Sep 16, 2026 · Referred to committee
Your members of Congress
Enter a ZIP to see where your representative and both senators stood on this bill.
Looked up on this device — your ZIP is never stored on our servers.
What it does
This bill stops schools from selling student data for voter tracking. Schools must ask students first in writing. Student names and phone numbers cannot be sold without permission. Schools that break this rule lose federal money.
Who it affects
Students get to say yes or no before schools sell their data. Schools must follow new rules about student data.
One thing to notice
The bill points to other federal rules about asking permission. Schools might ask all students to sign one form at sign-up. This could follow the rule but give students less real choice.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Sep 16, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Sep 16, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- federal money — Cash the government gives to schools to run programs.
- voter tracking — Watching or recording whether someone votes or how they vote.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,586 characters) on Sep 26, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 15,163 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.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-26.
“Schools must ask before selling student voter data.” QuorumCivic. https://share.quorumcivic.app/bill/119/s5408/simple Report an error