School employees and contractors would be prohibited from encouraging or assisting students in withholding information about gender identity or social transition from their parents.
I will support legislation that prohibits school employees and contractors from encouraging or assisting students to hide gender identity or social transition information from their parents.
Occurrences
Evidence
The House Committee on Education and Workforce hearing focused on transgender student policies, parental notification about gender identity, and school diversity initiatives.
Congress.gov lists Rep. Anna Paulina Luna [R-FL-13] as an original cosponsor of H.R.5 on March 1, 2023.
H.R.5 gave parents a right to know if a school employee or contractor changed a child's gender markers, pronouns, preferred name, or sex-based accommodations.
The Clerk recorded H.R.5 as passed, 213-208, and listed Luna, Republican of Florida, voting Aye.
Congress.gov shows H.R.5 passed the House on March 24, 2023, then was received in the Senate and referred to the HELP Committee on March 27, 2023.
H.R.736 required federally funded public elementary and secondary schools to obtain parental consent before changing a covered student's gender markers, pronouns, preferred name, or sex-based accommodations.
Assessments
The promise was to support legislation, not necessarily secure final enactment. During Luna's first House term, she was an original cosponsor of H.R.5, the Parents Bill of Rights Act, and voted for its House passage on March 24, 2023. The bill included parental-notification provisions tied to school employees or contractors changing a student's gender markers, pronouns, preferred name, or sex-based accommodations. Although H.R.5 did not become law, Luna materially performed the promised federal legislative support in the same term.
The available evidence shows congressional attention to transgender student parental-notification issues, but it does not show Anna Paulina Luna sponsoring, writing, or materially advancing legislation that would prohibit school employees or contractors from helping students hide gender identity or social transition information from parents. That makes the promise unconfirmed rather than delivered or failed.