I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2943 
To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit Federal education 
funding for elementary or secondary schools that provide access to emer-
gency postcoital contraception. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 1, 2013 
Mr. LAMBORN (for himself, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. WEST-
MORELAND, Mr. COLE, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. JONES, Mr. FLEM-
ING, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mrs. BACHMANN, and Mr. ROE of Ten-
nessee) 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 or secondary 
schools that provide access to emergency postcoital con-
traception. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Schoolchildren’s 
Health Protection Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. SCHOOLCHILDREN’S HEALTH PROTECTION. 
The General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 
1221 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new part: 
‘‘PART E—SCHOOLCHILDREN’S HEALTH 
PROTECTION 
‘‘SEC. 461. LIMITATIONS ON FUNDING. 
‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law, 
no funds may be made available from any applicable pro-
gram to a State educational agency or local educational 
agency that— 
‘‘(1) distributes or provides, or permits the dis-
tribution or provision of, postcoital emergency con-
traception (such as the so-called ‘morning-after 
pill’), or a prescription for such contraception, on 
the premises, or in the facilities, of an elementary 
school or secondary school; or 
‘‘(2) enters into a contract or other agreement 
relating to the provision of health services to stu-
dents under the jurisdiction of the agency with a 
school-based health center unless such center agrees 
that it will not provide postcoital emergency contra-
ception, or a prescription for such contraception, to 
any such student pursuant to the contract or agree-
ment. 
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‘‘SEC. 462. DEFINITIONS. 
‘‘In this part: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘postcoital emergency contracep-
tion’ means— 
‘‘(A) any of the regimens described in the 
notice entitled ‘Prescription Drug Products; 
Certain Combined Oral Contraceptives for Use 
as Postcoital Emergency Contraception’, pub-
lished in the Federal Register on February 25, 
1997 (62 Fed. Reg. 8610), or any subsequent 
corresponding notice; or 
‘‘(B) any other drug or device to be used 
after fertilization may have occurred and for 
the same purposes as the regimes in subpara-
graph (A). 
‘‘(2) The term ‘school-based health center’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 2110(c)(9) 
of 
the 
Social 
Security 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
1397jj(c)(9)).’’. 
Æ 
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