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S 8630Enacts the "freedom to read act"

Congress · introduced 2025-12-22

Requires each board of education to adopt a written policy for reconsideration of school library materials and make such policy available on its website; requires such policies to include provisions for the creation of a reconsideration committee to review complaints regarding school library materials; requires the commissioner of education to develop one or more model policies for school districts.

Latest action: 2026-05-07 IN_SENATE_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · senate REFERRED TO RULES
  2. · senate REFERRED TO EDUCATION
  3. · senate AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION
  4. · senate PRINT NUMBER 8630A
  5. · senate AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION
  6. · senate PRINT NUMBER 8630B
  7. · senate AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO EDUCATION
  8. · senate PRINT NUMBER 8630C

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Inbound (11)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-12-22John Liucosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-12-22Andrew Gounardescosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-12-22Toby Ann Staviskycosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-12-22Zellnor Myriecosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-12-22Brian Kavanaghcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-12-22Sam Suttoncosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-12-22Jeremy Zellnercosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-12-22Rachel Maysponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship
2025-12-22Julia Salazarcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-12-22José M. Serranocosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-12-22Robert Rolisoncosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship

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.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Rachel May (, state_upper NY-48)sponsor05
2Andrew Gounardes (, state_upper NY-26)cosponsor01
3Brian Kavanagh (, state_upper NY-27)cosponsor01
4Jeremy Zellner (, state_upper NY-61)cosponsor01
5John Liu (, state_upper NY-16)cosponsor01
6José M. Serrano (, state_upper NY-29)cosponsor01
7Julia Salazar (, state_upper NY-18)cosponsor01
8Robert Rolison (, state_upper NY-39)cosponsor01
9Sam Sutton (, state_upper NY-22)cosponsor01
10Toby Ann Stavisky (, state_upper NY-11)cosponsor01
11Zellnor Myrie (, state_upper NY-20)cosponsor01

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.

  1. 2025-12-22 · cosponsored by Brian Kavanagh (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-12-22 · cosponsored by Robert Rolison (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2025-12-22 · cosponsored by Zellnor Myrie (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  4. 2025-12-22 · cosponsored by Andrew Gounardes (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  5. 2025-12-22 · sponsored by Rachel May (sponsor) · sponsorship
  6. 2025-12-22 · cosponsored by Sam Sutton (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  7. 2025-12-22 · cosponsored by Julia Salazar (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  8. 2025-12-22 · cosponsored by Jeremy Zellner (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  9. 2025-12-22 · cosponsored by Toby Ann Stavisky (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  10. 2025-12-22 · cosponsored by José M. Serrano (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  11. 2025-12-22 · cosponsored by John Liu (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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