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H.R. 2616: Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act · Congress Swing Tracker

H.R. 2616119th CongressEducation

Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act

Sponsored by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) · 4 active : 3 Republicans, 1 Independent

Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedMay 20, 2026
Senate: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Parental Rights Over The Education and Care of Their Kids Act or the PROTECT Kids Act

This bill requires public elementary and middle schools, as a condition of receiving certain federal funds for elementary and secondary education, to obtain parental consent before changing a student's gender on school forms or changing a student's sex-based accommodations.

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Specifically, an elementary school or a school consisting of only grades 5-8 must obtain parental consent before changing a minor student's (1) gender markers, pronouns, or preferred name on any school form; or (2) sex-based accommodations, including locker rooms or bathrooms.

How the projections held up

Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.

House

On PassagePassed217 yea, 198 nayMay 20, 2026 · Roll call 184

How members in each band voted on this House vote, by their projection before the vote
BandBand before the vote	VotedVoted yea or nay	BrokeBroke with party	Share
Swing	49	7	14%
Middle	207	1	0%
Entrenched	159	0	0%
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Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Education and Workforce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · SenateReferred to

Subjects

Elementary and secondary education
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the House breaks down

44Swing 70–100
204Middle 30–70
183Entrenched 0–30
2Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the House

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional

: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

Similar past votes, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 22.0 (needs 5.0).

H.R. 2616 · May 20, 2026 · Roll call 544On PassagePROTECT Kids Act
PassedSame bill×3.0
H.R. 1005 · Dec 3, 2025 · Roll call 311On PassageCLASS Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 5349 · Dec 6, 2024 · Roll call 1210On PassageCrucial Communism Teaching Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 4795 · Sep 3, 2026 · Roll call 655On PassageProtect Economic and Academic Freedom Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 7892 · Jun 10, 2026 · Roll call 577On PassageNo Aid for Ghost Students Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6472 · Mar 4, 2026 · Roll call 442On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as AmendedTerritorial Student Access to Higher Education Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 6359 · Jan 22, 2026 · Roll call 407On PassagePregnant Students’ Rights Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1049 · Dec 4, 2025 · Roll call 313On PassageTRACE Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5

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H.R. 1069 · Dec 4, 2025 · Roll call 312On PassagePROTECT Our Kids Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 881 · May 7, 2025 · Roll call 119On PassageDHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1048 · Mar 27, 2025 · Roll call 82On PassageDETERRENT Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.R. 1048 · Mar 27, 2025 · Roll call 79On Agreeing to the Amendment
FailedSame policy area

Cosponsors

4 active

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Burgess Owens (R-UT-4)
Kevin Kiley (I-CA-3)
Mary E. Miller (R-IL-15)
Robert F. Onder (R-MO-3)

How the swing score works

Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.

Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.

Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.

Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.

Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.

Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.