Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2015

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Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 114th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

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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.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Mar 26, 2015

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2015

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.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2015

Latest action (Nov 16, 2015): Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Policy area: Health · Origin: House · Introduced: Mar 26, 2015

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.