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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2276
To prohibit the award of Federal funds to schools that promote certain
race-based theories to students, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH21, 2025
Mr. R
OYintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To prohibit the award of Federal funds to schools that pro-
mote certain race-based theories to students, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Combating Racist 4
Teaching in Schools Act’’ or the ‘‘CRT Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON AWARD OF FEDERAL FUNDS TO 6
CERTAIN SCHOOLS. 7
(a) P
ROHIBITION ONAWARD OFFUNDS TOCERTAIN 8
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LEMENTARY AND SECONDARYSCHOOLS.—No Federal 9
funds received by a State or local educational agency may 10
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be allocated to an elementary or secondary school that pro-1
motes the race-based theories described in subsection (c) 2
or compels teachers or students to affirm, adhere to, 3
adopt, or process beliefs in a manner that violates title 4
VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 5
(b) P
ROHIBITION ONAWARD OFFUNDS TOCERTAIN 6
I
NSTITUTIONS OF HIGHEREDUCATION.—No Federal 7
funds may be awarded to an institution of higher edu-8
cation if such institution promotes the race-based theories 9
described in subsection (c) or compels teachers or students 10
to affirm, adhere to, adopt, or process beliefs in a manner 11
that violates title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 12
(c) R
ACE-BASEDTHEORIESDESCRIBED.—The race- 13
based theories described in this subsection are the fol-14
lowing: 15
(1) Any race is inherently superior or inferior 16
to any other race, color, or national origin. 17
(2) The United States is a fundamentally racist 18
country. 19
(3) The Declaration of Independence or Con-20
stitution of the United States are fundamentally rac-21
ist documents. 22
(4) An individual’s moral character or worth is 23
determined by the individual’s race, color, or na-24
tional origin. 25
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(5) An individual, by virtue of the individual’s 1
race, is inherently racist or oppressive, whether con-2
sciously or unconsciously. 3
(6) An individual, because of the individual’s 4
race, bears responsibility for the actions committed 5
by other members of the individual’s race, color, or 6
national origin. 7
(d) R
ULES OFCONSTRUCTION.— 8
(1) P
ROTECTED SPEECH NOT RESTRICTED .— 9
Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict 10
the speech of a student, teacher, or any other indi-11
vidual outside of a school setting. 12
(2) A
CCESS TO MATERIALS FOR THE PURPOSE 13
OF RESEARCH OR INDEPENDENT STUDY .—Nothing 14
in this section shall be construed to prevent an indi-15
vidual from accessing materials that advocate theo-16
ries described in subsection (c) for the purpose of re-17
search or independent study. 18
(3) C
ONTEXTUAL EDUCATION .—Nothing in this 19
section shall be construed to prevent a covered 20
school from stating theories described in subsection 21
(c) or assigning materials that advocate such theo-22
ries for educational purposes in contexts that make 23
it clear the school does not sponsor, approve, or en-24
dorse such theories or materials. 25
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(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 1
(1) C
OVERED SCHOOL .—The term ‘‘covered 2
school’’ means an elementary school, a secondary 3
school, or an institution of higher education. 4
(2) ESEA
TERMS.—The terms ‘‘elementary 5
school’’, ‘‘local educational agency’’, ‘‘secondary 6
school’’, and ‘‘State’’ have the meanings given those 7
terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Sec-8
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 9
(3) I
NSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION .—The 10
term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 11
meaning given that term in section 102 of the High-12
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002). 13
(4) P
ROMOTE.—The term ‘‘promote’’, when 14
used with respect to a race-based theory described in 15
subsection (c), means— 16
(A) to include such theories or materials 17
that advocate such theories in curricula, read-18
ing lists, seminars, workshops, trainings, or 19
other educational or professional settings in a 20
manner that could reasonably give rise to the 21
appearance of official sponsorship, approval, or 22
endorsement; 23
(B) to contract with, hire, or otherwise en-24
gage speakers, consultants, diversity trainers, 25
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and other persons for the purpose of advocating 1
such theories; 2
(C) to compel students to profess a belief 3
in such theories; or 4
(D) to segregate students or other individ-5
uals by race in any setting, including in edu-6
cational or training sessions. 7
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