I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 901 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct 
certain coeducational elementary and secondary schools to make available 
information on equality in school athletic programs, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 7, 2007 
Ms. SLAUGHTER (for herself, Mrs. CAPITO, Mrs. CAPPS, Mrs. BIGGERT, Ms. 
BORDALLO, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Ms. CLARKE, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. CON-
YERS, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. 
GRIJALVA, Ms. HARMAN, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mrs. JONES of 
Ohio, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. LEE, Mrs. MALONEY of New 
York, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. VAN 
HOLLEN, Ms. WOOLSEY, and Mr. KENNEDY) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 to direct certain coeducational elementary and 
secondary schools to make available information on 
equality in school athletic programs, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘High School Athletics 
Accountability Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) Participation in sports teaches youth critical 
life skills and has a significant positive impact on all 
areas of their lives, especially for girls. 
(2) Participation in sports results in many long- 
term physical and psychological health benefits for 
girls. For instance— 
(A) providing opportunities to play sports 
in school is one key way to combat the rising 
rates of childhood obesity, which is caused in 
large part by physical inactivity; 
(B) girls who participate in sports have 
lower rates of heart disease, breast cancer, and 
osteoporosis; and 
(C) girls who participate in sports have 
higher levels of confidence and self-esteem, 
lower levels of depression, are less likely to be 
suicidal, and are more likely to have a positive 
body image than female non-athletes. 
(3) Participation in sports promotes responsible 
social behaviors and greater academic success among 
girls. For instance— 
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(A) girls who participate in sports are 
more likely to refrain from sexual activity, are 
more likely to defer having sex until a later age 
and to have fewer sex partners, and are half as 
likely to experience an unintended pregnancy as 
compared to female non-athletes; 
(B) girls who participate in sports have 
higher graduation rates, receive better grades, 
and score higher on standardized tests than fe-
male students in general; 
(C) girls who participate in sports have 
more positive attitudes towards science, a field 
traditionally predominated by males; 
(D) girls who participate in sports are less 
likely to smoke or use illegal drugs; 
(E) girls who participate in sports often 
have strengthened family relationships, includ-
ing with their fathers and other male family 
members; and 
(F) girls who participate in sports learn 
important professional lessons that have a life-
long influence (Eighty percent of women identi-
fied as key leaders in Fortune 500 companies 
participated in sports while growing up, and 82 
percent of executive businesswomen played 
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