To prohibit the provision of Federal funds to a local educational agency that imposes or enforces a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on students at the schools served by such agency.
HR 5691 prohibits federal funding to public elementary and secondary schools that require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for enrollment. It directly affects local school districts (referred to as "local educational agencies" under federal law) that enforce such student vaccine mandates. The bill's key mechanism is withholding all federal education funds from any district that imposes or enforces a student COVID-19 vaccine requirement. This policy change would prevent federal financial support for schools mandating vaccines for student enrollment, based on the definitions in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
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Introduced Oct 3, 2025
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Jefferson Van Drew
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