Protecting Life on College Campus Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-632
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2025-01-22
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Abortion

Education programs funding

Health facilities and institutions

Higher education
Latest action: action_date: 2025-01-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-22
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Protecting Life on College Campus Act of </strong><strong>2025</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits the award of federal funds to an institution of higher education (IHE) that hosts or is affiliated with a school-based service site that provides abortion drugs or abortions to its students or to employees of the IHE or the site. An IHE that hosts or is affiliated with a site must, in order to remain eligible for federal funds, annually certify that the site does not provide abortion drugs or abortions to students or employees.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 632 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 22, 2025 Mr. Roy (for himself, Mr. Feenstra , Mr. Webster of Florida , Mr. Davidson , Mr. Cline , Mr. Bost , Mr. Higgins of Louisiana , Mr. Hudson , Mr. Moolenaar , Mr. Crenshaw , Mr. Weber of Texas , Mr. Harris of Maryland , Mr. Guest , Mr. Aderholt , Mr. Ogles , Mr. Bilirakis , Mr. Fleischmann , Mrs. Miller of Illinois , Mr. Gosar , Mr. Downing , Mr. Gill of Texas , Mr. Moore of Alabama , and Mr. Biggs of Arizona ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce A BILL To prohibit the award of Federal funds to an institution of higher education that hosts or is affiliated with a student-based service site that provides abortion drugs or abortions to students of the institution or to employees of the institution or site, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Life on College Campus Act of 2025 . 2. Prohibition on award of funds to certain institutions of higher education (a) Prohibition No Federal funds may be awarded (directly or indirectly, including through a contract or subcontract) to any institution of higher education that hosts or is affiliated with any school-based service site that provides abortion drugs or abortions to students of the institution or to employees of the institution or site. (b) Annual reporting To remain eligible for awards of Federal funds, an institution of higher education that hosts or is affiliated with one or more school-based service sites shall submit an annual report to the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health and Human Services certifying that no such site provides abortion drugs or abortions to students of the institution or to employees of the institution or site. (c) Definitions In this section: (1) The term abortion drug means any drug, substance, or combination of drugs or substances that is intended for use or that is in fact used (irrespective of how the product is labeled)— (A) to intentionally kill the unborn child of a woman known to be pregnant; or (B) to intentionally terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant, with an intention other than— (i) to produce a live birth; (ii) to remove a dead unborn child; or (iii) to treat an ectopic pregnancy. (2) The term institution of higher education has the meaning given to such term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 ). (3) The term school-based service site means— (A) a clinic providing health care services (including primary health services, family planning services, telehealth services, and pharmaceutical services, without regard to whether the services are provided by employees of the clinic or contracted providers) to students that is located on the campus of an institution of higher education that accepts Federal funding; and (B) does not include a hospital (as defined in section 1861(e) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395x(e) )).