Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2015

Bill: 114-hr-1706
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2015-03-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses
Child health
Crime victims
Domestic violence and child abuse
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Education of the disadvantaged
Education programs funding
Educational technology and distance education
Elementary and secondary education
Family planning and birth control
Family relationships
HIV/AIDS
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Minority education
Performance measurement
Sex and reproductive health
Sex offenses
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Sexually transmitted diseases
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Teenage pregnancy
Violent crime

Summary:
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: 

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2015

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to award competitive grants for: (1) comprehensive sex education for adolescents; (2) comprehensive sex education provided by institutions of higher education; and (3) training faculty and staff to teach comprehensive sex education to elementary and secondary school students.
 
Grants cannot be used for health education programs that:
 
 
deliberately withhold health-promoting or lifesaving information about sexuality-related topics, including HIV;
 
are medically inaccurate or have been scientifically shown to be ineffective;
 
promote gender stereotypes;
 
are insensitive and unresponsive to the needs of survivors of sexual abuse or assault, sexually active youth, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth; or
 
are inconsistent with the ethical imperatives of medicine and public health.
 
 
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to remove limitations on using AIDS prevention program funding for education or information that promotes sexual activity or intravenous substance abuse. 
 This bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow funding to be used for contraceptive distribution in schools.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2015-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2015-03-26
text: Introduced in House