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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2874 

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 

the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, 

to award grants on a competitive basis to public and private entities 

to provide qualified sexual risk avoidance education to youth and their 

parents. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 

Mr. HULTGREN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 

acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award grants 

on a competitive basis to public and private entities 

to provide qualified sexual risk avoidance education to 

youth and their parents. 

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 ‘‘Abstinence Education 

5 Reallocation Act of 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. SEXUAL RISK AVOIDANCE EDUCATION. 

2 (a) GRANTS.—The Secretary of Health and Human 

3 Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health 

4 Resources and Services Administration, may award grants 

5 on a competitive basis to public and private entities to pro6 vide qualified sexual risk avoidance education to youth and 

7 their parents. 

8 (b) QUALIFIED SEXUAL RISK AVOIDANCE EDU9 CATION.—To qualify for funding under subsection (a), 

10 sexual risk avoidance education shall meet each of the fol11 lowing: 

12 (1) The education shall be age appropriate. 

13 (2) The education shall be medically accurate. 

14 (3) The education shall be an evidence-based 

15 approach. 

16 (4) The education shall have as its sole purpose 

17 teaching of the skills and benefits of sexual absti18 nence as the optimal sexual health behavior for 

19 youth. 

20 (5) The education shall include, consistent with 

21 paragraphs (1) through (4), teaching of each of the 

22 following: 

23 (A) The holistic health, economic, and soci24 etal benefits that can be gained by refraining 

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1 ing practical skills that promote self-regulation, 

2 goal setting, and a focus on the future. 

3 (B) The clear advantage of reserving 

4 human sexual activity for marriage, as a key 

5 contributing factor in the prevention of poverty 

6 and the preservation of physical and emotional 

7 health, based on social science research. 

8 (C) The foundational components of a 

9 healthy relationship and related research re10 garding the individual, economic, and societal 

11 advantages of bearing children within the con12 text of a committed marital relationship in 

13 order to form healthy marriages and safe and 

14 stable families. 

15 (D) The skills needed to resist the negative 

16 influences of the pervasive sex-saturated culture 

17 that presents teenage sexual activity as an ex18 pected norm, with few risks or negative con19 sequences. 

20 (E) The understanding of how drugs, alco21 hol, and the irresponsible use of social media 

22 can negatively influence healthy sexual decision 

23 making and can contribute to aggressive sexual 

24 behavior. 


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1 (F) A focused priority on the superior 

2 health benefits of sexual abstinence, ensuring 

3 that any information provided on contraception 

4 does not exaggerate its effectiveness in pre5 venting sexually transmitted diseases and preg6 nancies. 

7 (c) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under subsection 

8 (a), the Secretary shall give priority to applicants pro9 posing programs to provide qualified sexual risk avoidance 

10 education that— 

11 (1) will serve youth spanning ages 12 to 19; 

12 and 

13 (2) will promote protective benefits of parent14 child communication regarding healthy sexual deci15 sion making. 

16 (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 

17 (1) The term ‘‘age appropriate’’ means appro18 priate for the general developmental and social ma19 turity of the age group (as opposed to the cognitive 

20 ability to understand a topic or the atypical develop21 ment of a small segment of the targeted population). 

22 (2) The term ‘‘evidence-based approach’’ means 

23 an approach that— 


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1 (A) has a clear theoretical base that inte2 grates research findings with practical imple3 mentation expertise that is relevant to the field; 

4 (B) matches the needs and desired out5 comes for the intended audience; and 

6 (C) if implemented well, will demonstrate 

7 improved outcomes for the targeted population. 

8 (3) The term ‘‘medically accurate’’ means ref9 erenced to peer-reviewed research by medical, edu10 cational, scientific, governmental, or public health 

11 publications, organizations, or agencies. 

12 (4) The term ‘‘sexual abstinence’’ means volun13 tarily refraining from sexual activity. 

14 (5) The term ‘‘sexual activity’’ means genital 

15 contact or sexual stimulation including, but not lim16 ited to, sexual intercourse. 

17 (e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 

18 (1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 

19 appropriated $110,000,000 for each of fiscal years 

20 2012 through 2016 to carry out this Act. Amounts 

21 authorized to be appropriated by the preceding sen22 tence shall be derived exclusively from amounts in 

23 the Prevention and Public Health Fund established 

24 by section 4002 of the Patient Protection and Af25 fordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 300u–11). 


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1 (2) FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—Of the 

2 amount authorized to be appropriated by paragraph 

3 (1) for a fiscal year— 

4 (A) not more than $1,000,000 are author5 ized to be used for Federal administrative costs; 

6 and 

7 (B) of the amount used by the Secretary 

8 for such costs, at least 40 percent shall be used 

9 for training and technical assistance by quali10 fied experts who— 

11 (i) have singular experience in pro12 viding programmatic support in abstinence 

13 education; 

14 (ii) have expertise in theory-based ab15 stinence education curriculum development 

16 and implementation; 

17 (iii) have experience in developing sex18 ual risk avoidance evaluation instruments; 

19 and 

20 (iv) can offer technical assistance and 

21 training on a wide range of topics relevant 

22 to the sexual risk avoidance (or abstinence 

23 education) field. 

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