Safe Schools Improvement Act
Sponsored By: Senator Timothy Kaine
Introduced
Summary
Requires public schools to adopt comprehensive anti-bullying policies that explicitly protect students by race, color, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics), disability, and religion. It would also require schools to give annual notice, offer grievance procedures, collect school-level data, and submit information for federal review and evaluation.
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- Students and families: Schools would have to provide annual notice of prohibited conduct and grievance procedures so students and parents can report bullying and get timelines and contact names for complaints.
- Local educational agencies and schools: LEAs must implement anti-bullying policies that bar conduct that limits access to programs or creates a hostile environment and that protect association-based characteristics. LEAs must publicly report annual incidence data at the school level while keeping victims and alleged perpetrators anonymous.
- States: Chief state executives would submit biennial reports to the Secretary containing LEA data and plans for supporting local anti-bullying efforts.
- Federal agencies: The Department of Education would carry out an independent biennial evaluation and report to the President and Congress beginning January 1, 2026. The National Center for Education Statistics would collect state data on the incidence and frequency of the prohibited conduct.
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New anti-bullying rules for schools
If enacted, states that get Title IV grants would have to make local school districts adopt anti-bullying policies. The rules must define bullying as conduct that puts a student in fear and that harms school participation. Policies would prohibit harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), disability, religion, and people a student associates with. Schools would have to give annual notice, keep grievance procedures with named officials and timelines, and collect school-level data while protecting student identities.
Protecting civil rights and speech
If enacted, the new Part G would not replace or limit existing federal or state civil-rights laws. It would say the Part does not change legal standards for freedom of speech or expression. Victims and people asserting speech rights would keep current remedies and procedures.
Federal reviews of school bullying
If enacted, the Secretary of Education would do an independent evaluation of anti-bullying programs every two years. The Commissioner for Education Statistics would collect state-supplied data on bullying incidence and frequency for that review. The first report to the President and Congress would be due by January 1, 2026, and then every two years.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Timothy Kaine
VA • D
Cosponsors
Tammy Baldwin
WI • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Michael Bennet
CO • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Richard Blumenthal
CT • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Cory Booker
NJ • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Christopher Coons
DE • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Catherine Cortez Masto
NV • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Tammy Duckworth
IL • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Richard Durbin
IL • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
John Fetterman
PA • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
John Hickenlooper
CO • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Mazie Hirono
HI • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Edward Markey
MA • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Jeff Merkley
OR • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Patty Murray
WA • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Alex Padilla
CA • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Gary Peters
MI • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Jacky Rosen
NV • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Bernie Sanders
VT • I
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Jeanne Shaheen
NH • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Tina Smith
MN • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Mark Warner
VA • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Elizabeth Warren
MA • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Peter Welch
VT • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Ron Wyden
OR • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Christopher Murphy
CT • D
Sponsored 3/12/2025
Maria Cantwell
WA • D
Sponsored 3/13/2025
Martin Heinrich
NM • D
Sponsored 3/24/2025
Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]
NM • D
Sponsored 10/23/2025
Andy Kim
NJ • D
Sponsored 11/7/2025
Lisa Blunt Rochester
DE • D
Sponsored 11/19/2025
Adam Schiff
CA • D
Sponsored 1/12/2026
John Reed
RI • D
Sponsored 1/12/2026
Elissa Slotkin
MI • D
Sponsored 1/28/2026
Chris Van Hollen
MD • D
Sponsored 2/10/2026
Mark Kelly
AZ • D
Sponsored 2/10/2026
Angela Alsobrooks
MD • D
Sponsored 3/2/2026
Sheldon Whitehouse
RI • D
Sponsored 3/4/2026
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