11. Department of Education · Notable · Needs Congress
Bar funding or enforcement of Biden's Title IX regulations
Printed page 333 11. Department of Education
“Work with Congress to use the earliest available legislative vehicle to prohibit the department from using any appropriations or from otherwise enforcing any final regulations under Title IX promulgated by the department during the prior Administration.”
What has happened
- Not started
No appropriations rider or other legislative vehicle bars the Department from spending money on, or enforcing, the 2024 Title IX regulations. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (Public Law 119-75, 2026-02-03) uses the phrase "title IX" twice, both times to cite unrelated provisions of other statutes. The only Title IX legislation moving in the 119th Congress is H.R. 8781, the Title IX Clarification Act of 2026, which would define sex in the statute and was ordered reported 18-15 on 2026-07-21 without floor action; it is tracked as #836.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative search: the enrolled text of Public Law 119-75 (2.0 MB), searched for “title IX”, returns two hits, neither about the Education Amendments of 1972; a search of the titles of the bills we keep and search for “Title IX” returns seven measures, five of them commemorative resolutions and two of them the House and Senate versions of the Title IX Clarification Act.
- The ask is arguably moot on its own terms: the 2024 rule was vacated nationwide in Tennessee v. Cardona on 2025-01-09, before the window opened, and OCR’s Dear Colleague Letter of 2025-02-04 says no portion of it “is now in effect in any jurisdiction”. A prohibition on enforcing a vacated rule is still the thing this Quote asks Congress for, and Congress has not enacted it.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- Biden Administration Title IX final regulations
- ID
- 834