US Congress Senate Bill 1524 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: Introduced on May 16 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-05-16 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in coordination with certain HHS components, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Education, to award grants for comprehensive sex education for adolescents. It also awards grants for comprehensive sex education provided by institutions of higher education and for training faculty and staff to teach comprehensive sex education to adolescents. Comprehensive sex education programs may include, among other things, instruction that addresses the physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions of human sexuality and approaches designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their sexual health, prevent disease and reduce sexual health-related risk behaviors. Grant funds generally may not be used for specified purposes, including to (1) withhold specified health information related to HIV, (2) provide medically inaccurate information, or (3) promote gender or racial stereotypes. The bill also revises requirements and eliminates prohibitions regarding the content of educational programs funded through the HIV/AIDS prevention program, repeals the prohibition on using funds for materials or programs that promote or encourage sexual activity and contraceptive distribution in school, and repeals the Abstinence Only Until Marriage program.

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019

Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]
Sen. Tina Smith [D-MN]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-05-16	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB2720 (Related) 2019-05-15 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1524/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s1524/BILLS-116s1524is.pdf