Protecting Life on College Campus Act of 2023

Subjects: Education

Summary:  <p><strong>Protecting Life on College Campus Act of </strong><b>2023</b></p> <p> This bill prohibits the award of federal funds to an institution of higher education (IHE) that hosts or is affiliated with a school-based service site that provides abortion drugs or abortions to its students or to employees of the IHE or the site. An IHE that hosts or is affiliated with a site must, in order to remain eligible for federal funds, annually certify that the site does not provide abortion drugs or abortions to students or employees.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 16 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 16

  To prohibit the award of Federal funds to an institution of higher 
education that hosts or is affiliated with a student-based service site 
     that provides abortion drugs or abortions to students of the 
 institution or to employees of the institution or site, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 23 (legislative day, January 3), 2023

 Mr. Daines (for himself, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Cramer, Mr. 
  Rubio, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Risch, Mr. 
 Braun, Mr. Hagerty, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Marshall, 
 Mr. Cotton, Mrs. Blackburn, and Mr. Boozman) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the award of Federal funds to an institution of higher 
education that hosts or is affiliated with a student-based service site 
     that provides abortion drugs or abortions to students of the 
 institution or to employees of the institution or site, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Life on College Campus 
Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON AWARD OF FUNDS TO CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER 
              EDUCATION.

    (a) Prohibition.--No Federal funds may be awarded (directly or 
indirectly, including through a contract or subcontract) to any 
institution of higher education that hosts or is affiliated with any 
school-based service site that provides abortion drugs or abortions to 
students of such institution or to employees of such institution or 
site.
    (b) Annual Reporting.--To remain eligible for awards of Federal 
funds, an institution of higher education that hosts or is affiliated 
with one or more school-based service sites shall submit an annual 
report to the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services certifying that no such site provides abortion drugs or 
abortions to students of the institution or to employees of such 
institution or site.
    (c) Preemption.--An institution of higher education that receives 
Federal funds may not be subject to any penalty under State law solely 
by reason of compliance with this section.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Abortion drug.--The term ``abortion drug'' means any 
        drug, substance, or combination of drugs or substances that is 
        intended for use or that is in fact used (irrespective of how 
        the product is labeled)--
                    (A) to intentionally kill the unborn child of a 
                woman known to be pregnant; or
                    (B) to intentionally terminate the pregnancy of a 
                woman known to be pregnant, with an intention other 
                than--
                            (i) to produce a live birth;
                            (ii) to remove a dead unborn child; or
                            (iii) to treat an ectopic pregnancy.
            (2) Institution of higher education.--The term 
        ``institution of higher education'' has the meaning given such 
        term in section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
        U.S.C. 1002).
            (3) School-based service site.--The term ``school-based 
        service site''--
                    (A) means a clinic providing health care services 
                (including primary health services, family planning 
                services, telehealth services, and pharmaceutical 
                services, without regard to whether the services are 
                provided by employees of the clinic or contracted 
                providers) to students that is located on the campus of 
                an institution of higher education that accepts Federal 
                funding; and
                    (B) does not include a hospital (as defined in 
                section 1861(e) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
                1395x(e))).
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