I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5598 
To prohibit departments, agencies, and other instrumentalities of the Federal 
Government from providing assistance to an entity for the development 
of course material or the provision of instruction on human development 
and sexuality, if such material or instruction will include medically inac-
curate information, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 13, 2006 
Mr. GUTIERREZ (for himself, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. HONDA, Mr. FARR, 
Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, 
Mrs. CAPPS, Ms. LEE, Mr. MILLER of North Carolina, Ms. WOOLSEY, 
Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. STARK, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. 
MEEHAN, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. NADLER, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. WYNN, 
Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. JEFFERSON, and Mr. LARSEN of Washington) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce, 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 prohibit departments, agencies, and other instrumental-
ities of the Federal Government from providing assist-
ance to an entity for the development of course material 
or the provision of instruction on human development 
and sexuality, if such material or instruction will include 
medically inaccurate information, and for other purposes. 
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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 ‘‘Guarantee of Medical 
Accuracy in Sex Education Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) All federally funded programs aimed at 
helping young people make healthy decisions regard-
ing their relationships and sexual health should in-
clude medically accurate information. 
(2) A 2004 report from the Minority Office of 
the Committee on Government Reform of the House 
of Representatives found serious medical inaccura-
cies associated with a large majority of federally 
funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. 
(3) The Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) 
found in a 2006 position paper that abstinence-only- 
until-marriage programs ‘‘provide incomplete and/or 
misleading information’’ and states that ‘‘efforts to 
promote abstinence should be based on sound 
science’’. 
(4) The American College of Obstetricians and 
Gynecologists have also expressed ‘‘the importance 
of ensuring that all federally funded sexuality edu-
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cation programs include information that is medi-
cally accurate and complete’’. 
(5) The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 
believes that ‘‘children and adolescents need accu-
rate and comprehensive education about sexuality to 
practice healthy sexual behavior as adults’’. 
(6) The American Public Health Association 
(APHA) ‘‘recognize[s] that sexuality is a normal, 
healthy aspect of human development . . . and that 
individuals of all ages require complete and accurate 
information about all aspects of sexuality’’. APHA 
‘‘endorses the right of children and youth to receive 
comprehensive sexuality education that includes 
facts, information, and data and that demonstrates 
an appreciation of racial, ethnic, and cultural diver-
sity’’. 
(7) The American Medical Association ‘‘urges 
schools to implement comprehensive, developmentally 
appropriate sexuality education programs that are 
based on rigorous, peer reviewed science’’. 
(8) Over 1 billion dollars in citizen taxpayer 
money has been spent on abstinence-only-until-mar-
riage programs in the past quarter century without 
significant monitoring of the content of these pro-
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grams in order to guarantee they contain medically 
accurate information and exclude inaccurate data. 
SEC. 3. MEDICALLY INACCURATE SEX EDUCATION. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—A department, agency, or 
other instrumentality of the Federal Government shall not 
provide funds or other assistance to an entity for the de-
velopment of course material or the provision of instruc-
tion on human development and sexuality, including any 
sex education, family life education, abstinence education, 
comprehensive health education, or character education, if 
such material or instruction will include medically inac-
curate information. Before providing such funds or other 
assistance, the department, agency, or instrumentality 
shall require a sufficient assurance that such material or 
instruction will not include medically inaccurate informa-
tion. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act, the term ‘‘medically 
inaccurate information’’ means information related to 
medical, psychiatric, psychological, empirical, or statistical 
statements that is unsupported or contradicted by peer- 
reviewed research by leading medical, psychological, psy-
chiatric, and public health organizations and agencies. 
Æ 
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