Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act of 2023
- Last Action
- 5/26/2023
Actions
- 2023-05-26Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 2023-05-22Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
- 2023-05-22Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
- 2023-05-22Introduced in House
- 2023-05-22Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2023-05-22 (00)
Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act of 2023
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish grants to support sex education and sexual health services for young people (ages 10 through 29) and repeals requirements that apply to certain federally funded sex education programs.
HHS must award grants, in coordination with the Department of Education, to (1) provide sex education to young people; and (2) train education professionals to effectively teach, and otherwise support, sex education. Sex education refers to high quality teaching and learning that
- follows, to the maximum extent practicable, specified educational standards;
- covers a variety of topics concerning sex and sexuality;
- explores values and beliefs about those topics; and
- helps young people gain skills to navigate relationships and manage sexual health.
Additionally, HHS must award grants to youth-serving organizations and health care entities that are eligible to receive covered outpatient drugs at reduced prices through the 340B drug discount program for providing sexual health services to marginalized youth.
Recipients of any of these grants must comply with certain nondiscrimination requirements. In addition, they may not use funds for sex education programs or sexual health services that provide incomplete or inaccurate medical information or fail to address specified issues.
The bill also eliminates prohibitions regarding the content of specified federally funded sexual health education and information programs and repeals the Abstinence Only Until Marriage program.
Cosponsors (20)
- Alma Adams (D-NC)
- Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
- Sean Casten (D-IL)
- Madeleine Dean (D-PA)
- LLOYD DOGGETT (D-TX)
- Eric Swalwell (D-CA)
- Sylvia Garcia (D-TX)
- Donald Payne (D-NJ)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- Julia Brownley (D-CA)
- Kathy Castor (D-FL)
- JANICE SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL)
- DANNY DAVIS (D-IL)
- Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
- Frederica Wilson (D-FL)
- Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
- Jill Tokuda (D-HI)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI)
- Cori Bush (D-MO)
- Mike Quigley (D-IL)
Subjects
- Academic performance and assessments
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Child health
- Congressional oversight
- Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Educational technology and distance education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Family planning and birth control
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Higher education
- Indian social and development programs
- Medical tests and diagnostic methods
- Mental health
- Minority education
- Minority health
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Sex and reproductive health
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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