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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4046 

To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit Federal education 

funding for elementary or secondary schools that provide access to emergency postcoital contraception. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 15, 2012 

Mr. LAMBORN (for himself, Mrs. SCHMIDT, Mr. JONES, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. 

LATTA, Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mrs. BACHMANN, Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina, Mr. KING of Iowa, Mr. BRADY

of Texas, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. CULBERSON, Mr. 

FLEMING, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. COLE, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. PAUL, Mrs. 

HARTZLER, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. NEUGEBAUER, Mr. CONAWAY, and Mr. 

MARCHANT) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 

A BILL 

To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit 

Federal education funding for elementary or secondary 

schools that provide access to emergency postcoital contraception. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Schoolchildren’s 

5 Health Protection Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. SCHOOLCHILDREN’S HEALTH PROTECTION. 

2 The General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 

3 1221 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol4 lowing new part: 

5 ‘‘PART E—SCHOOLCHILDREN’S HEALTH 

6 PROTECTION 

7 ‘‘SEC. 461. LIMITATIONS ON FUNDING. 

8 ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law, 

9 no funds may be made available from any applicable pro10 gram to a State educational agency or local educational 

11 agency that— 

12 ‘‘(1) distributes or provides, or permits the dis13 tribution or provision of, postcoital emergency con14 traception (such as the so-called ‘morning-after 

15 pill’), or a prescription for such contraception, on 

16 the premises, or in the facilities, of an elementary 

17 school or secondary school; or 

18 ‘‘(2) enters into a contract or other agreement 

19 relating to the provision of health services to stu20 dents under the jurisdiction of the agency with a 

21 school-based health center unless such center agrees 

22 that it will not provide postcoital emergency contra23 ception, or a prescription for such contraception, to 

24 any such student pursuant to the contract or agree25 ment. 


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1 ‘‘SEC. 462. DEFINITIONS. 

2 ‘‘In this part: 

3 ‘‘(1) The term ‘postcoital emergency contracep4 tion’ means— 

5 ‘‘(A) any of the regimens described in the 

6 notice entitled ‘Prescription Drug Products; 

7 Certain Combined Oral Contraceptives for Use 

8 as Postcoital Emergency Contraception’, pub9 lished in the Federal Register on February 25, 

10 1997 (62 FR 8610), or any subsequent cor11 responding notice; or 

12 ‘‘(B) any other drug or device to be used 

13 after fertilization may have occurred and for 

14 the same purposes as the regimes in subpara15 graph (A). 

16 ‘‘(2) The term ‘school-based health center’ has 

17 the meaning given such term in section 2110(c)(9) 

18 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 

19 1397jj(c)(9)).’’. 

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