Bill > HR725

Introduced Session

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2013 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award competitive grants to enable eligible entities to carry out programs that provide adolescents with comprehensive sex education to: (1) replicate evidence-based sex education programs, (2) substantially incorporate elements of evidence-based sex education programs, or (3) create a demonstration project based on generally accepted characteristics of effective sex education programs. Sets forth provisions regarding evaluation of such programs. Requires the Secretary to establish a common set of performance measures to assess the implementation and impact of grant programs funded under this Act. Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to: (1) institutions of higher education to enable such institutions to provide young people with comprehensive sex education with an emphasis on reducing HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy; and (2) eligible entities to train targeted faculty and staff in order to increase effective teaching of comprehensive sex education for elementary and secondary school students. Prohibits programs funded under this Act from discriminating on the basis of actual or perceived sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. Prohibits federal funds provided under this Act from being used for health education programs that: (1) deliberately withhold life-saving information about HIV; (2) are medically inaccurate or have been scientifically shown to be ineffective; (3) promote gender stereotypes; (4) are insensitive and unresponsive to the needs of sexually active youth or lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender youth; or (5) are inconsistent with the ethical imperatives of medicine and public health. Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal a prohibition against the use of appropriations for AIDS prevention programs to provide education or information designed to promote or encourage, directly, homosexual or heterosexual activity or intravenous substance abuse. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to repeal a prohibition against the use of authorized funds to operate a program of contraceptive distribution in schools.

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Barbara Lee (D)*,  Karen Bass (D),  Earl Blumenauer (D),  Suzanne Bonamici (D),  Donna Christensen (D),  Judy Chu (D),  Yvette Clarke (D),  Lacy Clay (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  John Conyers (D),  Susan Davis (D),  Peter DeFazio (D),  Diana DeGette (D),  Rosa DeLauro (D),  Theodore Deutch (D),  Keith Ellison (D),  Sam Farr (D),  Lois Frankel (D),  Raúl Grijalva (D),  Luis Gutiérrez (D),  Janice Hahn (D),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Rush Holt (D),  Michael Honda (D),  Jared Huffman (D),  Steve Israel (D),  Eddie Johnson (D),  Hank Johnson (D),  Marcy Kaptur (D),  James Langevin (D),  Rick Larsen (D),  John Lewis (D),  Zoe Lofgren (D),  Alan Lowenthal (D),  Michelle Lujan Grisham (D),  Carolyn Maloney (D),  Betty McCollum (D),  Jim McDermott (D),  Jim McGovern (D),  Jerry McNerney (D),  Gwen Moore (D),  James Moran (D),  Jerry Nadler (D),  Grace Napolitano (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Beto O'Rourke (D),  Ed Perlmutter (D),  Scott Peters (D),  Chellie Pingree (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  David Price (D),  Mike Quigley (D),  Charles Rangel (D),  Lucille Roybal-Allard (D),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Allyson Schwartz (D),  Bobby Scott (D),  José Serrano (D),  Albio Sires (D),  Louise Slaughter (D),  Jackie Speier (D),  Mark Takano (D),  Mike Thompson (D),  John Tierney (D),  Dina Titus (D),  Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D),  Maxine Waters (D), 

Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. (on 04/23/2013)