Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019
- Last Action
- 5/15/2019
Actions
- 2019-05-15Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2019-05-14Referred 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.
- 2019-05-14Referred 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.
- 2019-05-14Introduced in House
- 2019-05-14Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2019-05-14 (00)
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.
Cosponsors (20)
- EARL BLUMENAUER (D-OR)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
- Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
- Gwen Moore (D-WI)
- Ro Khanna (D-CA)
- Paul Tonko (D-NY)
- Jackie Speier (D-CA)
- Alma Adams (D-NC)
- NYDIA VELAZQUEZ (D-NY)
- ALCEE HASTINGS (D-FL)
- JOSE SERRANO (D-NY)
- Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
- Veronica Escobar (D-TX)
- LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD (D-CA)
- Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
- ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA)
- Judy Chu (D-CA)
- Norma Torres (D-CA)
Subjects
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Appropriations
- Child care and development
- Child health
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Education programs funding
- Elementary and secondary education
- Family planning and birth control
- Family relationships
- HIV/AIDS
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Higher education
- Indian social and development programs
- Medical research
- Minority education
- Sex and reproductive health
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- Sexually transmitted diseases
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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