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H.R. 1706

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2015

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2015

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to award competitive grants for: (1) comprehensive sex education for adolescents; (2) comprehensive sex education provided by institutions of higher education; and (3) training faculty and staff to teach comprehensive sex education to elementary and secondary school students.

Grants cannot be used for health education programs that:

  • deliberately withhold health-promoting or lifesaving information about sexuality-related topics, including HIV;
  • are medically inaccurate or have been scientifically shown to be ineffective;
  • promote gender stereotypes;
  • are insensitive and unresponsive to the needs of survivors of sexual abuse or assault, sexually active youth, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth; or
  • are inconsistent with the ethical imperatives of medicine and public health.

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to remove limitations on using AIDS prevention program funding for education or information that promotes sexual activity or intravenous substance abuse.

This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow funding to be used for contraceptive distribution in schools.

Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13](D-CA)Sponsor
80 cosponsors80 D
80cosponsors2committees8actions2related bills24subjects
  1. Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

    Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcomittee
  2. Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

    Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee
  3. Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

    Health Subcommittee
  4. IntroReferralH11100

    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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
  5. IntroReferralH11100-A

    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.

  6. IntroReferralH11100

    Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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
  7. IntroReferralIntro-H

    Introduced in House

  8. IntroReferral1000

    Introduced in House

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2015 — Informed