S 8597 — Prohibits children from being denied access to a free public education due to citizenship or immigration status
Congress · introduced 2025-12-03
Prohibits children from being denied access to a free public education on account of perceived or actual citizenship or immigration status or the perceived or actual citizenship or immigration status of their parents or person in a parental relationship.
Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_SENATE_COMM
Sponsors
- Shelley Mayer (—, NY-37) — sponsor · 2025-12-03
- Patricia Fahy (—, NY-46) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
- Rachel May (—, NY-48) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
- Jessica Ramos (—, NY-13) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
- Julia Salazar (—, NY-18) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
- Lea Webb (—, NY-52) — cosponsor · 2025-12-03
Action timeline
- · senate — REFERRED TO RULES
- · senate — REFERRED TO EDUCATION
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Inbound (6)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-03 | Jessica Ramos | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Shelley Mayer | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Rachel May | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Julia Salazar | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Patricia Fahy | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-12-03 | Lea Webb | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shelley Mayer (—, state_upper NY-37) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Jessica Ramos (—, state_upper NY-13) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Julia Salazar (—, state_upper NY-18) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Lea Webb (—, state_upper NY-52) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Patricia Fahy (—, state_upper NY-46) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Rachel May (—, state_upper NY-48) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Lea Webb (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Rachel May (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Julia Salazar (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Jessica Ramos (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · sponsored by Shelley Mayer (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-12-03 · cosponsored by Patricia Fahy (cosponsor) · sponsorship