1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Saving American History Act of 2020 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The true date of America’s founding is July 4, 1776, the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. (2) The self-evident truths set forth by that Declaration are the fundamental principles upon which America was founded. (3) An activist movement is now gaining momentum to deny or obfuscate this history by claiming that America was not founded on the ideals of the Declaration but rather on slavery and oppression. (4) This distortion of American history is being taught to children in public school classrooms via the New York Times’ 1619 Project , which claims that nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional grew out of slavery . (5) The 1619 Project is a racially divisive and revisionist account of history that threatens the integrity of the Union by denying the true principles on which it was founded. (6) The Federal Government has a strong interest in promoting an accurate account of the Nation’s history through public schools and forming young people into knowledgeable and patriotic citizens. 3. Prohibition of Federal funding for schools to teach the 1619 Project curriculum (a) Definitions In this section: (1) ESEA The terms elementary school , local educational agency , and secondary school have the meanings given the terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 ). (2) Secretary The term Secretaries means the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. (b) Prohibition of use of federal funding for 1619 Project Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds shall be used by any— (1) elementary school or secondary school to teach the 1619 Project initiative of the New York Times in such school