Senate Bill 4788
116th Congress(2019-2020)
Protect Parent Organized Direction of Students Act
Introduced
Introduced in Senate on Oct 1, 2020
Origin Chamber
Senate
Type
Bill
Bill
The primary form of legislative measure used to propose law. Depending on the chamber of origin, bills begin with a designation of either H.R. or S. Joint resolution is another form of legislative measure used to propose law.
Bill Number
4788
Congress
116
Policy Area
Education
Education
Primary focus of measure is elementary, secondary, or higher education including special education and matters of academic performance, school administration, teaching, educational costs, and student aid.
No Senate votes have been held for this bill.
Summary
Protect Parent Organized Direction of Students Act
This bill prohibits states and localities that regulate the free formation of educational pods from receiving federal emergency education funding for COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) relief. An educational pod refers to a small group of three or more students at the elementary or secondary school level who are from more than one family and learn together in person outside of the school.
In addition, the bill temporarily expands the tax deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers to include certain home educators.
October 1, 2020
10/01/2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
10/01/2020
Introduced in Senate
Public Record
Record Updated
Jan 11, 2023 1:44:24 PM