Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act of 2021

Bill: 117-hr-3312
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2021-05-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Academic performance and assessments
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Child health
Congressional oversight
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
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Higher education
Indian social and development programs
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Mental health
Minority education
Minority health
Racial and ethnic relations
Sex and reproductive health
Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2021-05-18
text: 

Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act of 2021

 
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish grants to support sex education and sexual health services for young people (ages 10 through 29) and repeals requirements that apply to certain federally funded sex education programs.
 
HHS must award grants, in coordination with the Department of Education, to (1) provide sex education to young people through elementary and secondary schools, institutions of higher education, and youth-serving organizations; and (2) train education professionals to effectively teach, and otherwise support, sex education. 
Sex education
 refers to high quality teaching and learning that
 
 
follows, to the maximum extent practicable, specified educational standards;
 
covers a variety of topics concerning sex and sexuality;
 
explores values and beliefs about those topics; and
 
helps young people gain skills to navigate relationships and manage sexual health.
 
 
Additionally, HHS must award grants for the provision of sexual health services to marginalized youth to youth-serving organizations and health care entities that are eligible to receive covered outpatient drugs at reduced prices through the 340B drug discount program.
 
Recipients of any of these grants must comply with certain nondiscrimination requirements. In addition, they may not use funds for sex education programs or sexual health services that provide incomplete or inaccurate medical information or fail to address specified issues.
 
The bill also eliminates prohibitions regarding the content of specified federally funded sexual health education and information programs and repeals the Abstinence Only Until Marriage program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2021-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 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.
action_date: 2021-05-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Energy 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.
action_date: 2021-05-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2021-05-18
text: Introduced in House