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]
[H.R. 435 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 435

  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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 20, 2023

  Mr. Roy (for himself, Mr. Kelly of Mississippi, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. 
    Feenstra, Mr. Pfluger, Mr. Duncan, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. 
Rosendale, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Banks, Mr. Jackson of Texas, Mr. Ellzey, Ms. 
  De La Cruz, Mr. Self, Mr. Waltz, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. 
Moran, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Kelly 
of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Miller of West Virginia, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Grothman, 
  and Mr. Good of Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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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 the institution or to employees of the 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 the 
institution or site.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) 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) The term ``institution of higher education'' has the 
        meaning given to such term in section 101 of the Higher 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).
            (3) The term ``school-based service site'' means--
                    (A) 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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