Safe Schools Civil Rights Protections (Anti-Bullying & Harassment)
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-22 — To establish a grant program to support students, families, and school personnel impacted by immigration enforcement actions to ensure that schools remain safe, trauma-informed learning environments, and for other purposes.: HR9853 introduced — proposes federal grant program for students, families, and school personnel impacted by immigration enforcement to preserve safe, trauma-informed school environments; a parallel school-safety civil rights strand focused on immigration-enforcement harms rather than bullying/harassment. (novelty: 3) (novelty: 3)
- 2025-11-20 — Latino Youth Mental Health Empowerment Act: HR6226 (Latino Youth Mental Health Empowerment Act) referred to House Energy and Commerce — a health-side parallel to school-based youth protections, targeting mental health access for Latino youth rather than in-school harassment prevention. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-12-11 — Keeping All Students Safe Act: Keeping All Students Safe Act (HR6617) referred to House Education and Workforce and Armed Services Committees — a parallel student-safety civil rights measure focused on restraint and seclusion rather than bullying/harassment, disproportionately affecting students with disabilities. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-04-10 — No Visas for Anti-Semitic Students Act: HR2866 (No Visas for Anti-Semitic Students Act) introduced, addressing anti-Semitic harassment by non-citizen students via visa revocation rather than school-based civil rights enforcement — a parallel immigration-side lever alongside the K-12 anti-harassment framework. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-06-25 — No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026: 2026-06-25 — No Antisemitism in Education Act of 2026 (HR8476) ordered reported from committee by 20-12 vote, adding a religion/ethnicity-specific anti-harassment strand alongside the broader K-12 civil rights protections framework. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-09-18 — Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2025: 2025 — HR5486 (Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act) referred to House Education and Workforce Committee, extending the anti-harassment framework concept from K–12 (Safe Schools) into postsecondary institutions. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-06-08 — National Commission to Combat Workplace Sexual Harassment Act: cross-connection with workplace-sexual-harassment-commission: Parallel anti-harassment frameworks in different settings: workplace (federal commission proposal) versus K–12 schools (civil rights protections). (novelty: 2)
- 2025-12-11 — Sammy’s Law: cross-connection with sammys-law-child-online-safety: Both aim to protect minors from harassment and abuse-related harms, with Sammy’s Law focused on online platforms and Safe Schools focused on school environments. (novelty: 3)
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Contributing findings
To establish a grant program to support students, families, and school personnel impacted by immigration enforcement actions to ensure that schools remain safe, trauma-informed learning environments, and for other purposes.
22-jul-2026
novelty 3
per-area 2
mentions
Accessible Emergency Information, and Apparatus Requirements for Emergency Information and Video Description: Implementation of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010
15-may-2026
novelty 2
per-area 1
mentions
Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2025
18-sep-2025
novelty 2
per-area 2
strengthens
Homeland Security Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2004
05-nov-2004
novelty 2
per-area 2
mentions