I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6173 
To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit Federal education 
funding for elementary schools and secondary schools that provide on- 
campus access to abortion providers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 24, 2012 
Mr. NEUGEBAUER (for himself, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. AKIN, Mr. 
LATTA, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. NUNNELEE, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. PEARCE, 
Mr. LANDRY, Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas, Mr. POMPEO, Mr. LAMBORN, 
Mrs. SCHMIDT, Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. HULTGREN, Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. 
RENACCI, Mr. HUIZENGA of Michigan, Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. SCA-
LISE, Mr. MICA, Mr. SAM
JOHNSON
of Texas, Mr. PAUL, Mrs. 
HARTZLER, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. FLORES, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. 
JONES, Mrs. BLACK, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. BRADY of Texas, Mr. 
FLEMING, Mr. OLSON, Mrs. ROBY, Mr. CANSECO, and Mr. POE of Texas) 
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 schools and 
secondary schools that provide on-campus access to abor-
tion providers. 
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 ‘‘Protecting Life in 
Funding Education Act’’ or the ‘‘PRO-LIFE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SCHOOLCHILDREN’S PROTECTION FROM ABORTION 
PROVIDERS. 
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 PROTECTION 
FROM ABORTION PROVIDERS 
‘‘SEC. 470. SCHOOLCHILDREN’S PROTECTION FROM ABOR-
TION PROVIDERS. 
‘‘(a) LIMITATION
ON FUNDING.—Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, no funds shall be made avail-
able under any applicable program to any State edu-
cational agency or local educational agency that enters 
into a contract or other agreement with a school-based 
health center relating to the provision of health services 
to students served by the agency unless such center cer-
tifies that— 
‘‘(1) the center will not perform an abortion; 
and 
‘‘(2) the center will not provide abortion-related 
materials, referrals, suggestions, or directions for 
abortion services to any such student. 
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‘‘(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this part 
shall be construed to prevent a school-based health center 
from providing non-abortion health services to pregnant 
students. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this part: 
‘‘(1) ESEA TERMS.—The terms ‘local edu-
cational agency’ and ‘State educational agency’ have 
the meanings given the terms in section 9101 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 7801). 
‘‘(2) SCHOOL-BASED
HEALTH
CENTER.—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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