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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1122 

To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit Federal education 

funding for elementary schools and secondary schools that provide oncampus access to abortion providers. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 13, 2013 

Mr. NEUGEBAUER (for himself, Mr. BENISHEK, Mr. BENTIVOLIO, Mrs. 

BLACK, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. BOUSTANY, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. 

BROUN of Georgia, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. DUNCAN of South 

Carolina, Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. FLORES, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas, Mr. HALL, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. 

HUELSKAMP, Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan, Mr. HULTGREN, Mr. JONES, 

Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. 

LATTA, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. LONG, Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. MASSIE, Mr. 

MICA, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. NUGENT, Mr. 

NUNNELEE, Mr. OLSON, Mr. PALAZZO, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. POE of Texas, 

Mr. POMPEO, Mrs. ROBY, Mr. SALMON, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, and 

Mr. WEBER of Texas) 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 schools and 

secondary schools that provide on-campus access to abortion providers. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Life in 

3 Funding Education Act’’ or the ‘‘PRO-LIFE Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. SCHOOLCHILDREN’S PROTECTION FROM ABORTION 

5 PROVIDERS. 

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

7 1221 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol8 lowing new part: 

9 ‘‘PART E—SCHOOLCHILDREN’S PROTECTION 

10 FROM ABORTION PROVIDERS 

11 ‘‘SEC. 470. SCHOOLCHILDREN’S PROTECTION FROM ABOR12 TION PROVIDERS. 

13 ‘‘(a) LIMITATION ON FUNDING.—Notwithstanding 

14 any other provision of law, no funds shall be made avail15 able under any applicable program to any State edu16 cational agency or local educational agency that enters 

17 into a contract or other agreement with a school-based 

18 health center relating to the provision of health services 

19 to students served by the agency unless such center cer20 tifies that— 

21 ‘‘(1) the center will not perform an abortion; 

22 and 

23 ‘‘(2) the center will not provide abortion-related 

24 materials, referrals, or directions for abortion serv25 ices to any such student. 


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1 ‘‘(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this part 

2 shall be construed to prevent a school-based health center 

3 from providing non-abortion health services to pregnant 

4 students. 

5 ‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this part: 

6 ‘‘(1) ESEA TERMS.—The terms ‘local edu7 cational agency’ and ‘State educational agency’ have 

8 the meanings given the terms in section 9101 of the 

9 Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 

10 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 

11 ‘‘(2) SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CENTER.—The 

12 term ‘school-based health center’ has the meaning 

13 given such term in section 2110(c)(9) of the Social 

14 Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397jj(c)(9)).’’. 

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