(7) Comprehensive sexuality education pro-
grams respect the diversity of values and beliefs rep-
resented in the community and will complement and 
augment the sexuality education children receive 
from their families. 
(8) The median age of puberty is 13 years and 
the average age of marriage is over 26 years old. 
American teens need access to full, complete, and 
medically and factually accurate information regard-
ing sexuality, including contraception, STD/HIV 
prevention, and abstinence. 
(9) Although teen pregnancy rates are decreas-
ing, the United States has the highest teen preg-
nancy rate in the industrialized world with between 
750,000 and 850,000 teen pregnancies each year. 
Between 75 and 90 percent of teen pregnancies 
among 15- to 19-year olds are unintended. 
(10) A November 2006 study of declining preg-
nancy rates among teens concluded that the reduc-
tion in teen pregnancy between 1995 and 2002 is 
primarily the result of increased use of contracep-
tives. As such, it is critically important that teens 
receive accurate, unbiased information about contra-
ception. 
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(11) More than eight out of ten Americans be-
lieve that young people should have information 
about abstinence and protecting themselves from un-
planned pregnancies and sexually transmitted dis-
eases. 
(12) The United States has the highest rate of 
infection with sexually transmitted diseases of any 
industrialized country. In 2005, there were approxi-
mately 19,000,000 new cases of sexually transmitted 
diseases, almost half of them occurring in young 
people ages 15 to 24. According to the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, these sexually 
transmitted diseases impose a tremendous economic 
burden with direct medical costs as high as 
$14,100,000,000 per year. 
(13) Each year, teens in the United States con-
tract an estimated 9.1 million sexually transmitted 
infections. Each year, one in four sexually active 
teens contracts a sexually transmitted disease. 
(14) Nearly half of the 40,000 annual new 
cases of HIV infections in the United States occur 
in youth ages 13 through 24. Approximately 50 
young people a day, an average of two young people 
every hour of every day, are infected with HIV in 
the United States. 
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(15) African-American and Latino youth have 
been disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS 
epidemic. Although African-American adolescents 
ages 13 through 19 represent only 15 percent of the 
adolescent population in the United States, they ac-
counted for 73 percent of new AIDS cases reported 
among teens in 2004. Although Latinos ages 20 
through 24 represent only 18 percent of the young 
adults in the United States, they accounted for 23 
percent of the new AIDS cases in 2004. 
SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE TO REDUCE TEEN PREGNANCY, HIV/ 
AIDS, AND OTHER SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED 
DISEASES AND TO SUPPORT HEALTHY ADO-
LESCENT DEVELOPMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each eligible State shall be enti-
tled to receive from the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012, 
a grant to conduct programs of family life education, in-
cluding education on both abstinence and contraception 
for the prevention of teenage pregnancy and sexually 
transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS FOR FAMILY LIFE PROGRAMS.— 
For purposes of this Act, a program of family life edu-
cation is a program that— 
(1) is age-appropriate and medically accurate; 
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(2) does not teach or promote religion; 
(3) teaches that abstinence is the only sure way 
to avoid pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases; 
(4) stresses the value of abstinence while not ig-
noring those young people who have had or are hav-
ing sexual intercourse; 
(5) provides information about the health bene-
fits and side effects of all contraceptives and barrier 
methods as a means to prevent pregnancy; 
(6) provides information about the health bene-
fits and side effects of all contraceptives and barrier 
methods as a means to reduce the risk of con-
tracting sexually transmitted diseases, including 
HIV/AIDS; 
(7) encourages family communication about 
sexuality between parent and child; 
(8) teaches young people the skills to make re-
sponsible decisions about sexuality, including how to 
avoid unwanted verbal, physical, and sexual ad-
vances and how not to make unwanted verbal, phys-
ical, and sexual advances; and 
(9) teaches young people how alcohol and drug 
use can effect responsible decisionmaking. 
(c) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out a pro-
gram of family life education, a State may expend a grant 
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under subsection (a) to carry out educational and motiva-
tional activities that help young people— 
(1) gain knowledge about the physical, emo-
tional, biological, and hormonal changes of adoles-
cence and subsequent stages of human maturation; 
(2) develop the knowledge and skills necessary 
to ensure and protect their sexual and reproductive 
health from unintended pregnancy and sexually 
transmitted disease, including HIV/AIDS through-
out their lifespan; 
(3) gain knowledge about the specific involve-
ment of and male responsibility in sexual decision-
making; 
(4) develop healthy attitudes and values about 
adolescent growth and development, body image, 
gender roles, racial and ethnic diversity, sexual ori-
entation, and other subjects; 
(5) develop and practice healthy life skills in-
cluding goal-setting, decisionmaking, negotiation, 
communication, and stress management; 
(6) promote self-esteem and positive inter-
personal skills focusing on relationship dynamics, in-
cluding, but not limited to, friendships, dating, ro-
mantic involvement, marriage and family inter-
actions; and 
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(7) prepare for the adult world by focusing on 
educational and career success, including developing 
skills for employment preparation, job seeking, inde-
pendent living, financial self-sufficiency, and work-
place productivity. 
SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that while States are not 
required to provide matching funds, they are encouraged 
to do so. 
SEC. 5. EVALUATION OF PROGRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For the purpose of evaluating the 
effectiveness of programs of family life education carried 
out with a grant under section 3, evaluations of such pro-
gram shall be carried out in accordance with subsections 
(b) and (c). 
(b) NATIONAL EVALUATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide 
for a national evaluation of a representative sample 
of programs of family life education carried out with 
grants under section 3. A condition for the receipt 
of such a grant is that the State involved agree to 
cooperate with the evaluation. The purposes of the 
national evaluation shall be the determination of— 
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(A) the effectiveness of such programs in 
helping to delay the initiation of sexual inter-
course and other high-risk behaviors; 
(B) the effectiveness of such programs in 
preventing adolescent pregnancy; 
(C) the effectiveness of such programs in 
preventing sexually transmitted disease, includ-
ing HIV/AIDS; 
(D) the effectiveness of such programs in 
increasing contraceptive knowledge and contra-
ceptive behaviors when sexual intercourse oc-
curs; and 
(E) a list of best practices based upon es-
sential programmatic components of evaluated 
programs that have led to success in subpara-
graphs (A) through (D). 
(2) REPORT.—A report providing the results of 
the national evaluation under paragraph (1) shall be 
submitted to the Congress not later than March 31, 
2011, with an interim report provided on a yearly 
basis at the end of each fiscal year. 
(c) INDIVIDUAL STATE EVALUATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—A condition for the receipt 
of a grant under section 3 is that the State involved 
agree to provide for the evaluation of the programs 
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of family education carried out with the grant in ac-
cordance with the following: 
(A) The evaluation will be conducted by an 
external, independent entity. 
(B) The purposes of the evaluation will be 
the determination of— 
(i) the effectiveness of such programs 
in helping to delay the initiation of sexual 
intercourse and other high-risk behaviors; 
(ii) the effectiveness of such programs 
in preventing adolescent pregnancy; 
(iii) the effectiveness of such pro-
grams in preventing sexually transmitted 
disease, including HIV/AIDS; and 
(iv) the effectiveness of such programs 
in increasing contraceptive knowledge and 
contraceptive behaviors when sexual inter-
course occurs. 
(2) USE OF GRANT.—A condition for the re-
ceipt of a grant under section 3 is that the State in-
volved agree that not more than 10 percent of the 
grant will be expended for the evaluation under 
paragraph (1). 
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act: 
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(1) The term ‘‘eligible State’’ means a State 
that submits to the Secretary an application for a 
grant under section 3 that is in such form, is made 
in such manner, and contains such agreements, as-
surances, and information as the Secretary deter-
mines to be necessary to carry out this Act. 
(2) The term ‘‘HIV/AIDS’’ means the human 
immunodeficiency virus, and includes acquired im-
mune deficiency syndrome. 
(3) The term ‘‘medically accurate’’, with respect 
to information, means information that is supported 
by research, recognized as accurate and objective by 
leading medical, psychological, psychiatric, and pub-
lic health organizations and agencies, and where rel-
evant, published in peer review journals. 
(4) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services. 
SEC. 7. APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For the purpose of carrying out 
this Act, there are authorized to be appropriated such 
sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2008 
through 2012. 
(b) ALLOCATIONS.—Of the amounts appropriated 
under subsection (a) for a fiscal year— 
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