Michael Ramey, president of the Parental Rights Foundation, in 2022. (Courtesy of the Parental Rights Foundation) On July 19, Mr.

Jennifer Kennedy, a civil rights attorney based in Pasadena and spokeswoman for parental rights group Our Duty, which opposes the bill, told The Epoch Times earlier this month the bill would prevent judges from exercising discretion in considering the

DeSantis has doubted that his bill would conflict with Trump’s policies but maintained his right to implement the law amid threats of federal lawsuits and funding cuts.

As part of its enforcement, the government will draft what it calls a Ministry of Education Parents' Bill of Rights, and ask parents during the consultation process what should be included in the bill of rights.

Some, however, say they are concerned the bill may undermine parents’ right to know what their children are experiencing in school.

Opponents of a bill that would require all foster parents in California to “affirm” the chosen gender identities of children in their care have called the proposed legislation an attack on constitutionally protected religious freedom and parental rights

Her campaign literature says that parents are the first educators of their children—and that teachers should not keep gender transitions of children secret from parents. She quotes the Bible.

Media Framed Parental Rights Bill A teacher reads a book to her kindergarten class.

Controversy Over Parental Rights Bill Disney became embroiled in controversy when it pushed back against the introduction of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill that bans discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through

Specifically, involving parents and guardians of pupils in the education process is fundamental to a healthy system of public education.” Our courts have repeatedly affirmed the rights that parents have over their children. In Prince v.

Bill 27, the Education Amendment Act, seeks to enshrine parents’ rights to be notified if their kids change their names/pronouns at school, and it gives parents the right to “opt in” to what sort of gender and sex education their kids are exposed to in

It would also exempt the laws from review under the Alberta Bill of Rights and the Alberta Human Rights Act.

The agreement ended nearly two years of litigation over Florida's parental rights act and Mr. DeSantis' takeover of Disney's special governing district. On the same day, Mr.

Assemblyman Bill Essayli (R-Riverside) also said he is confident that parents’ right to be involved in their children’s education is legally protected.

Mandy Drogin, campaign director for Next Generation Texas with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, said Texas is lagging behind other states on an important parental rights issue.

The bill’s text states that the government does not require “any evidence that the parent is unfit and worthy of having his/her parental rights terminated.”

The centre-left Labor government achieved passage of the Bill with support from the centre-right Liberal-National Coalition amid a blitz of Bills on the last sitting day of Parliament in 2024. The ban passed the lower house a day earlier.

Under Missouri House Bill 1950, lawmakers propose replacing court-appointed child advocates, who decide the best interests of a child, with a binding bill of rights for children. The first one is the "right to live in a safe, comfortable place."

"In Florida, we not only know that parents have a right to be involved, we insist that parents have a right to be involved,” DeSantis said when he signed the bill into law.

The leader of OneBC, the newest political party in British Columbia, says her party plans to propose legislation aimed at limiting child gender transitions and reinforcing parental rights, after an initial attempt at such a bill was defeated before first

I § 9 of the Florida Constitution, and the eighth is for violation of the Parents’ Bill of Rights, Florida Statutes, Chapter 1014, signed into law by Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis on June 30, 2021.

Florida Emphasizes Parental Rights Bills In March 2022, Florida Gov.

Just one day before the protests, the province of Saskatchewan passed its Parental Rights Bill, which amends the Education Act to require schools to seek parental consent if students under 16 want to change their gender pronouns or identity.

Additionally, last 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 to be heard by district leaders.

In December 2025, DeSantis announced his proposal for the AI Bill of Rights, which covers data privacy, parental controls for children’s interactions with AI, requirements for consumers to be alerted when dealing with AI, and much more.

Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has promoted an “AI Bill of Rights” focused on privacy and parental control and has warned that federal preemption would amount to a subsidy for large technology companies. Tom Ozimek contributed to this report. 

Despite this, the bill faces opposition from TikTok itself and from various civil society groups, citing concerns over potential infringement of users' First Amendment rights.

“Right now, the process for enrolling newborns in health coverage is overly complicated, and it can easily—and understandably—slip through the cracks, leaving new parents on the hook for sky high bills.”

UR Pride called the policy discriminatory and said it violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of students. Moe, however, said the legislation was key to protecting parental rights.

It came after Disney issued a critical statement about a DeSantis-backed bill, the Parental Rights in Education bill, that prohibits teachers from instructing about sexual orientation and gender identity topics to children under the third grade.