SEC. 2. SEXUAL RISK AVOIDANCE EDUCATION. 
(a) GRANTS.—The Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health 
Resources and Services Administration, may award grants 
on a competitive basis to public and private entities to pro-
vide qualified sexual risk avoidance education to youth and 
their parents. 
(b) QUALIFIED SEXUAL RISK AVOIDANCE EDU-
CATION.—To qualify for funding under subsection (a), 
sexual risk avoidance education shall meet each of the fol-
lowing: 
(1) The education shall be age appropriate. 
(2) The education shall be medically accurate. 
(3) The education shall be an evidence-based 
approach. 
(4) The education shall have as its sole purpose 
teaching of the skills and benefits of sexual absti-
nence as the optimal sexual health behavior for 
youth. 
(5) The education shall include, consistent with 
paragraphs (1) through (4), teaching of each of the 
following: 
(A) The holistic health, economic, and soci-
etal benefits that can be gained by refraining 
from nonmarital sexual activity, through teach-
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ing practical skills that promote self-regulation, 
goal setting, and a focus on the future. 
(B) The clear advantage of reserving 
human sexual activity for marriage, as a key 
contributing factor in the prevention of poverty 
and the preservation of physical and emotional 
health, based on social science research. 
(C) The foundational components of a 
healthy relationship and related research re-
garding the individual, economic, and societal 
advantages of bearing children within the con-
text of a committed marital relationship in 
order to form healthy marriages and safe and 
stable families. 
(D) The skills needed to resist the negative 
influences of the pervasive sex-saturated culture 
that presents teenage sexual activity as an ex-
pected norm, with few risks or negative con-
sequences. 
(E) The understanding of how drugs, alco-
hol, and the irresponsible use of social media 
can negatively influence healthy sexual decision 
making and can contribute to aggressive sexual 
behavior. 
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(F) A focused priority on the superior 
health benefits of sexual abstinence, ensuring 
that any information provided on contraception 
does not exaggerate its effectiveness in pre-
venting sexually transmitted diseases and preg-
nancies. 
(c) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under subsection 
(a), the Secretary shall give priority to applicants pro-
posing programs to provide qualified sexual risk avoidance 
education that— 
(1) will serve youth spanning ages 12 to 19; 
and 
(2) will promote protective benefits of parent- 
child communication regarding healthy sexual deci-
sion making. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘age appropriate’’ means appro-
priate for the general developmental and social ma-
turity of the age group (as opposed to the cognitive 
ability to understand a topic or the atypical develop-
ment of a small segment of the targeted population). 
(2) The term ‘‘evidence-based approach’’ means 
an approach that— 
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(A) has a clear theoretical base that inte-
grates research findings with practical imple-
mentation expertise that is relevant to the field; 
(B) matches the needs and desired out-
comes for the intended audience; and 
(C) if implemented well, will demonstrate 
improved outcomes for the targeted population. 
(3) The term ‘‘medically accurate’’ means ref-
erenced to peer-reviewed research by medical, edu-
cational, scientific, governmental, or public health 
publications, organizations, or agencies. 
(4) The term ‘‘sexual abstinence’’ means volun-
tarily refraining from sexual activity. 
(5) The term ‘‘sexual activity’’ means genital 
contact or sexual stimulation including, but not lim-
ited to, sexual intercourse. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated $110,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2012 through 2016 to carry out this Act. Amounts 
authorized to be appropriated by the preceding sen-
tence shall be derived exclusively from amounts in 
the Prevention and Public Health Fund established 
by section 4002 of the Patient Protection and Af-
fordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 300u–11). 
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(2) FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—Of the 
amount authorized to be appropriated by paragraph 
(1) for a fiscal year— 
(A) not more than $1,000,000 are author-
ized to be used for Federal administrative costs; 
and 
(B) of the amount used by the Secretary 
for such costs, at least 40 percent shall be used 
for training and technical assistance by quali-
fied experts who— 
(i) have singular experience in pro-
viding programmatic support in abstinence 
education; 
(ii) have expertise in theory-based ab-
stinence education curriculum development 
and implementation; 
(iii) have experience in developing sex-
ual risk avoidance evaluation instruments; 
and 
(iv) can offer technical assistance and 
training on a wide range of topics relevant 
to the sexual risk avoidance (or abstinence 
education) field. 
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