Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (May 14, 2019)
Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in coordination with certain HHS components, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Education, to award grants for comprehensive sex education for adolescents. It also awards grants for comprehensive sex education provided by institutions of higher education and for training faculty and staff to teach comprehensive sex education to adolescents. Comprehensive sex education programs may include, among other things, instruction that addresses the physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions of human sexuality and approaches designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their sexual health, prevent disease and reduce sexual health-related risk behaviors.
Grant funds generally may not be used for specified purposes, including to (1) withhold specified health information related to HIV, (2) provide medically inaccurate information, or (3) promote gender or racial stereotypes.
The bill also
- revises requirements and eliminates prohibitions regarding the content of educational programs funded through the HIV/AIDS prevention program,
- repeals the prohibition on using funds for materials or programs that promote or encourage sexual activity and contraceptive distribution in school, and
- repeals the Abstinence Only Until Marriage program.
What just happenedMay 15, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseMay 14, 2019
- May 15, 2019Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - May 14, 2019IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Education and the Workforce Committee - May 14, 2019IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Energy and Commerce Committee - May 14, 2019IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- May 14, 2019IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House