I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2097 
To authorize grants to carry out projects to provide education on preventing 
teen pregnancies, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 1, 2007 
Mr. ROTHMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize grants to carry out projects to provide edu-
cation on preventing teen pregnancies, and for other 
purposes. 
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 ‘‘Teen Pregnancy Pre-
vention, Responsibility, and Opportunity Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds as follows: 
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(1) The United States has the highest teen 
pregnancy rate and teen birth rate in the western in-
dustrialized world, costing the United States not less 
than $9,000,000,000 annually. 
(2) About 2 out of 5 young women in the 
United States become pregnant before they reach 
the age of 20. 
(3) Teen pregnancy has serious consequences 
for young women, their children, and communities 
as a whole. Too-early childbearing increases the like-
lihood that a young woman will drop out of high 
school and that she and her child will live in poverty. 
(4) Statistically, the sons of teen mothers are 
more likely to end up in prison. The daughters of 
teen mothers are more likely to end up teen mothers 
too. 
(5) Teens that grow up in disadvantaged eco-
nomic, social, and familial circumstances are more 
likely to engage in risky behavior and have a child 
during adolescence. 
(6) Teens with strong emotional attachments to 
their parents are more likely to become sexually ac-
tive at a later age. Seven out of ten teens say that 
they are prepared to listen to things parents thought 
they were not ready to hear. 
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(7) Seventy-eight percent of white and 70 per-
cent of African-American teenagers report that lack 
of communication between a teenage girl and her 
parents is frequently a reason a teenage girl has a 
baby. 
(8) One study found that the likelihood of teens 
having sex for the first time increased with the num-
ber of unsupervised hours teens have during a week. 
(9) After-school programs reduce teen risky be-
havior by involving teens in activities that provide al-
ternatives to sex. Teenage girls who play sports, for 
instance, are more likely to delay sex and have fewer 
partners and less likely to become pregnant. 
(10) After-school programs help prevent teen 
pregnancy by advancing good decision-making skills 
and providing teens health education and positive 
role models in a supervised setting. 
(11) About 70 percent of girls and 63 percent 
of boys report that they wish they had waited until 
they were older to have sex. 
SEC. 3. EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR PREVENTING TEEN 
PREGNANCIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) may make grants to local educational agencies, 
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State and local public health agencies, and nonprofit pri-
vate entities for the purpose of carrying out projects to 
provide education on preventing teen pregnancies. 
(b) PREFERENCE IN MAKING GRANTS.—In making 
grants under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give pref-
erence to applicants that will carry out the projects under 
such subsection in communities for which the rate of teen 
pregnancy is significantly above the average rate in the 
United States of such pregnancies. 
(c) CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS.—A grant may be 
made under subsection (a) only if the applicant for the 
grant meets the following conditions with respect to the 
project involved: 
(1) The applicant agrees that information pro-
vided by the project on pregnancy prevention will be 
age-appropriate, factually and medically accurate 
and complete, and scientifically-based. 
(2) The applicant agrees that the project will 
give priority to preventing teen pregnancies by— 
(A) encouraging teens to delay sexual ac-
tivity; 
(B) providing educational services and re-
ferrals for sexually active teens or teens at risk 
of becoming sexually active; 
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(C) educating both young men and women 
about the responsibilities and pressures that 
come along with parenting; 
(D) helping parents communicate with 
teens about sexuality; or 
(E) teaching young people responsible deci-
sion-making. 
(d) MATCHING FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to the costs of 
the project to be carried out under subsection (a) by 
an applicant, a grant may be made under such sub-
section only if the applicant agrees to make available 
(directly or through donations from public or private 
entities) non-Federal contributions toward such 
costs in an amount that is not less than 25 percent 
of such costs ($1 for each $3 of Federal funds pro-
vided in the grant). 
(2) DETERMINATION
OF
AMOUNT
CONTRIB-
UTED.—Non-Federal contributions required in para-
graph (1) may be in cash or in kind, fairly evalu-
ated, including plant, equipment, or services. 
Amounts provided by the Federal Government, or 
services assisted or subsidized to any significant ex-
tent by the Federal Government, may not be in-
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cluded in determining the amount of such non-Fed-
eral contributions. 
(e) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT.—With respect to the 
activities for which a grant under subsection (a) is author-
ized to be expended, such a grant may be made for a fiscal 
year only if the applicant involved agrees to maintain ex-
penditures of non-Federal amounts for such activities at 
a level that is not less than the level of such expenditures 
maintained by the applicant for the fiscal year preceding 
the first fiscal year for which the applicant receives such 
a grant. 
(f) EVALUATION OF PROJECTS.—The Secretary shall 
establish criteria for the evaluation of projects under sub-
section (a). A grant may be made under such subsection 
only if the applicant involved— 
(1) agrees to conduct evaluations of the project 
in accordance with such criteria; 
(2) agrees to submit to the Secretary such re-
ports describing the results of the evaluations as the 
Secretary determines to be appropriate; and 
(3) submits to the Secretary, in the application 
under subsection (g), a plan for conducting the eval-
uations. 
(g) APPLICATION
FOR GRANT.—A grant may be 
made under subsection (a) only if an application for the 
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grant is submitted to the Secretary and the application 
is in such form, is made in such manner, and contains 
such agreements, assurances, and information, including 
the agreements under subsections (c) through (f) and the 
plan under subsection (f)(3), as the Secretary determines 
to be necessary to carry out this section. 
(h) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than October 
1, 2012, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report 
describing the extent to which projects under subsection 
(a) have been successful in reducing the rate of teen preg-
nancies in the communities in which the projects have 
been carried out. 
(i) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) AGE-APPROPRIATE.—The term ‘‘age-appro-
priate’’, with respect to information on pregnancy 
prevention, means topics, messages, and teaching 
methods suitable to particular ages or age groups of 
children and adolescents, based on developing cog-
nitive, emotional, and behavioral capacity typical for 
the age or age group. 
(2) FACTUALLY
AND
MEDICALLY
ACCURATE 
AND COMPLETE.—The term ‘‘factually and medically 
accurate and complete’’ means verified or supported 
by the weight of research conducted in compliance 
with accepted scientific methods and— 
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(A) published in peer-reviewed journals, 
where applicable; or 
(B) comprising information that leading 
professional organizations and agencies with 
relevant expertise in the field recognize as accu-
rate, objective, and complete. 
(3) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘local educational agency’’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 9101 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(j) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For the 
purpose of carrying out this section, there is authorized 
to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
2008 through 2012. 
SEC. 4. REAUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN AFTER-SCHOOL 
PROGRAMS. 
(a) 21ST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CEN-
TERS.—Section 4206 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7176) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) $2,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and 
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‘‘(8) $2,750,000,000 for fiscal year 2009.’’. 
(b) CAROL M. WHITE PHYSICAL EDUCATION PRO-
GRAM.—Section 5401 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7241) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘There are’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) 
IN GENERAL.—There are’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) PHYSICAL EDUCATION.—In addition to the 
amounts authorized to be appropriated by subsection (a), 
there are authorized to be appropriated $73,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2008 and 2009 to carry out subpart 
10.’’. 
(c) FEDERAL TRIO PROGRAMS.—Section 402A(f) of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a– 
11(f)) is amended by striking ‘‘$700,000,000 for fiscal 
year 1999, and such sums as may be necessary for each 
of the 4 succeeding fiscal years’’ and inserting 
‘‘$883,000,000 for fiscal year 2008 and such sums as may 
be necessary for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal years’’. 
(d) GEARUP.—Section 404H of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a–28) is amended by 
striking ‘‘$200,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 and such 
sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding 
fiscal years’’ and inserting ‘‘$325,000,000 for fiscal year 
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2008 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 
5 succeeding fiscal years’’. 
SEC. 5. DEMONSTRATION GRANTS TO ENCOURAGE CRE-
ATIVE APPROACHES TO TEEN PREGNANCY 
PREVENTION 
AND 
AFTER-SCHOOL 
PRO-
GRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make grants 
to public or nonprofit private entities for the purpose of 
assisting the entities in demonstrating innovative ap-
proaches to prevent teen pregnancies. 
(b) CERTAIN APPROACHES.—Approaches under sub-
section (a) may include the following: 
(1) Encouraging teen-driven approaches to 
pregnancy prevention. 
(2) Exposing teens to realistic simulations of 
the physical, emotional, and financial toll of preg-
nancy and parenting. 
(3) Facilitating communication between parents 
and children, especially programs that have been 
evaluated and proven effective. 
(c) MATCHING FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to the costs of 
the project to be carried out under subsection (a) by 
an applicant, a grant may be made under such sub-
section only if the applicant agrees to make available 
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(directly or through donations from public or private 
entities) non-Federal contributions toward such 
costs in an amount that is not less than 25 percent 
of such costs ($1 for each $3 of Federal funds pro-
vided in the grant). 
(2) DETERMINATION
OF
AMOUNT
CONTRIB-
UTED.—Non-Federal contributions required in para-
graph (1) may be in cash or in kind, fairly evalu-
ated, including plant, equipment, or services. 
Amounts provided by the Federal Government, or 
services assisted or subsidized to any significant ex-
tent by the Federal Government, may not be in-
cluded in determining the amount of such non-Fed-
eral contributions. 
(d) EVALUATION OF PROJECTS.—The Secretary shall 
establish criteria for the evaluation of projects under sub-
section (a). A grant may be made under such subsection 
only if the applicant involved— 
(1) agrees to conduct evaluations of the project 
in accordance with such criteria; 
(2) agrees to submit to the Secretary such re-
ports describing the results of the evaluations as the 
Secretary determines to be appropriate; and 
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