The legislation was one of three bills introduced by the Alberta government in October 2024 to deal with gender transition procedures for youth, transgender athletes in female sports, and parental rights in schools.

Smith was asked if her government would commit to introducing a parental rights bill similar to those adopted in Saskatchewan and New Brunswick, requiring parental consent if students under the age of 16 wish to change their names or pronouns in school

California teachers, counselors, and other school employees would be required to promptly inform parents of children who identify as transgender at school under proposed parental rights legislation.

(Richard Drew/AP Photo) Disney Embroiled in Controversy Disney became embroiled in controversy when it pushed back against the introduction of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill.

Opponents labeled it the "Don't Say Gay" bill, a derogatory description that much of the media immediately adopted.

Rice was demoted as chairman of the Committee of Conference and replaced with the majority leader after she worked to defeat a GOP-led parental rights bill. “It’s such a fine line between parental rights and the child’s rights,” Ms.

January Littlejohn, a Leon County, Fla., parent addresses the crowd at the Parental Rights in Education Bill signing event on March 28, 2022.

Conservative House Leader A'aliya Warbus left the chamber Oct. 8 when Rustad and party members voted in favour of a private member's bill from OneBC that aimed to restrict childhood gender transition in the province and grant parents expanded legal rights

The Parental Rights In Education Bill signed into law by DeSantis in March 2022 prohibits classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, among other requirements designed to protect the rights of parents

But, he said, he couldn’t support the bill because it would exclude the voices of non-consenting parents and suggested it would infringe on parental rights.

He emphasized that parents will not lose the right to decide what their children read. 

Last week, DeSantis signed a bill into law that dissolved Disney's special governing status on a sprawling, 25,000-acre parcel of land near Orlando amid a public policy spat over a parental rights bill backed by the governor that Disney weighed in on.

He also dissolved the self-governing status of Walt Disney World in central Florida, after the company issued a statement that was critical of the Parental Rights in Education bill that DeSantis backed and signed into law, which bans teachers from instructing

The Saskatchewan government says a Regina Public School policy that left parents in the dark about their child’s use of gender pronouns at school prompted its move to introduce the Parental Rights Bill. 

House Bill 1403 ensures that foster parents are not required to disclose the types of firearms kept in their homes and mandates confidentiality for any related information.

The bill also bars teachers from coaching children behind their parents’ backs on the issue. Vowing to defend the “basic human rights” of the LGBTQ+ community, Chapek pledged $5 million to the Human Rights Campaign.

(Nathan Howard/Getty Images) Cox, a Maryland delegate and a legal specialist in constitutional law, is the author of a Maryland Parental Rights Act bill that has been tabled by the legislature.

Little signed Senate Bill 1329 which recognizes that parents have a “fundamental right and duty” regarding the health care decisions of their minor children.

Bridgen said that he would still be pursuing the matter to stop the "indoctrination" of children in schools and for the rights of parents to see the materials their children are being taught.

Amidst the emergence of "woke" concepts being taught in classrooms, Latham has championed a parental rights bill to give parents more control over what concepts are taught to their children while they are entrusted to teachers at schools.

And it is exactly those children whose parents are most likely to take advantage of the rights this bill outlines."

Additionally, in June, the board adopted a “parent’s bill of rights,” which grants district parents and guardians the right to know what their children are being taught and the right to be heard by district leaders.

Smith said the bill would have violated parental rights, increased the number of child gender transitions, and likely have resulted in a flood of lawsuits from parents whose children were taken away to Maine for child gender transition.

Mandating language, incentivizing cross-ethnic marriage, and rewriting the rules of faith among ethnic groups. China’s new law further requires parents to guide their children toward the Communist Party—raising alarms among human rights groups.

A bill that would ban "reasonable force" used to discipline children passed a second reading by MPs, despite concerns over parental rights and classroom chaos.

Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) Bill.

states and also violates the fundamental rights of parents while increasing the risk of irreversible harm to America’s children.”

In addition to public disclosure laws, ECASD has a parental notification requirement under its "Teaching About Controversial Issues" policy. The policy is a vague amalgamation of several parental notification bills introduced around the country.

He praised the Legislature for several of its accomplishments over the years, including but not limited to banning communist China from buying land in the state, enacting a digital bill of rights as well as parental rights in education, protecting Floridians

“I want to make sure that the rights of children and protect the rights of parents are identified and protected.”