US Congress House Bill 725

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April 23 2013 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award competitive grants to enable eligible entities to carry out programs that provide adolescents with comprehensive sex education to: (1) replicate evidence-based sex education programs, (2) substantially incorporate elements of evidence-based sex education programs, or (3) create a demonstration project based on generally accepted characteristics of effective sex education programs. Sets forth provisions regarding evaluation of such programs. Requires the Secretary to establish a common set of performance measures to assess the implementation and impact of grant programs funded under this Act. Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to: (1) institutions of higher education to enable such institutions to provide young people with comprehensive sex education with an emphasis on reducing HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy; and (2) eligible entities to train targeted faculty and staff in order to increase effective teaching of comprehensive sex education for elementary and secondary school students. Prohibits programs funded under this Act from discriminating on the basis of actual or perceived sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. Prohibits federal funds provided under this Act from being used for health education programs that: (1) deliberately withhold life-saving information about HIV; (2) are medically inaccurate or have been scientifically shown to be ineffective; (3) promote gender stereotypes; (4) are insensitive and unresponsive to the needs of sexually active youth or lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender youth; or (5) are inconsistent with the ethical imperatives of medicine and public health. Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal a prohibition against the use of appropriations for AIDS prevention programs to provide education or information designed to promote or encourage, directly, homosexual or heterosexual activity or intravenous substance abuse. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to repeal a prohibition against the use of authorized funds to operate a program of contraceptive distribution in schools.

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2013

Rep Lee, Barbara	Rep Bass, Karen	Rep Blumenauer, Earl	Rep Bonamici, Suzanne
Rep Christensen, Donna M.	Rep Chu, Judy	Rep Clarke, Yvette D.	Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy
Rep Cohen, Steve	Rep Conyers, John, Jr.	Rep Davis, Susan A.	Rep DeFazio, Peter A.
Rep DeGette, Diana	Rep DeLauro, Rosa L.	Rep Deutch, Theodore E.	Rep Ellison, Keith
Rep Farr, Sam	Rep Grijalva, Raul M.	Rep Hastings, Alcee L.	Rep Holt, Rush D.
Rep Honda, Michael M.	Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice	Rep Langevin, James R.	Rep Larsen, Rick
Rep Lewis, John	Rep Lofgren, Zoe	Rep Lowenthal, Alan S.	Rep McCollum, Betty
Rep McDermott, Jim	Rep McGovern, James P.	Rep McNerney, Jerry	Rep Moore, Gwen
Rep Moran, James P.	Rep Nadler, Jerrold	Rep Napolitano, Grace F.	Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes
Rep Pingree, Chellie	Rep Pocan, Mark	Rep Price, David E.	Rep Quigley, Mike
Rep Rangel, Charles B.	Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille	Rep Schakowsky, Janice D.	Rep Scott, Robert C. "Bobby"
Rep Sires, Albio	Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh	Rep Speier, Jackie	Rep Takano, Mark
Rep Wasserman Schultz, Debbie	Rep Waters, Maxine

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-04-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
2013-04-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2013-02-15	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2013-02-14	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2013-02-14	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2013-02-14	House	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.

SB372 (Same As) 2013-02-14 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HN00725:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr725ih/pdf/BILLS-113hr725ih.pdf