Abstinence Education Reallocation Act of 2013 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to award grants for qualified sexual risk avoidance education to youth and their parents. Requires such education to meet certain criteria, including: (1) being age-appropriate, medically accurate, and evidence-based; (2) teaching the skills and benefits of sexual abstinence as the optimal sexual health behavior for youth; and (3) teaching the benefits of refraining from nonmarital sexual activity, the advantage of reserving sexual activity for marriage, and the foundational components of a healthy relationship.
Gives priority to programs that serve youth ages 12 to 19 and that will promote the protective benefits of parent-child communication regarding healthy sexual decisionmaking.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 718 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 718
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through
the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration,
to award grants on a competitive basis to public and private entities
to provide qualified sexual risk avoidance education to youth and their
parents.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 14, 2013
Mr. Hultgren (for himself and Mr. Lipinski) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through
the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration,
to award grants on a competitive basis to public and private entities
to provide qualified sexual risk avoidance education to youth and their
parents.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Abstinence Education Reallocation
Act of 2013''.
SEC. 2. SEXUAL RISK AVOIDANCE EDUCATION.
(a) Grants.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting
through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services
Administration, may award grants on a competitive basis to public and
private entities to provide qualified sexual risk avoidance education
to youth and their parents.
(b) Qualified Sexual Risk Avoidance Education.--To qualify for
funding under subsection (a), sexual risk avoidance education shall
meet each of the following:
(1) The education shall be age appropriate.
(2) The education shall be medically accurate.
(3) The education shall be an evidence-based approach.
(4) The context for all sexual health education shall be
teaching the skills and benefits of sexual abstinence as the
optimal sexual health behavior for youth.
(5) The education shall include, consistent with paragraphs
(1) through (4), teaching of each of the following:
(A) The holistic health, economic, and societal
benefits that can be gained by refraining from
nonmarital sexual activity, through teaching practical
skills that promote self-regulation, goal setting, and
a focus on the future.
(B) The clear advantage of reserving human sexual
activity for marriage, as a key contributing factor in
the prevention of poverty and the preservation of
physical and emotional health, based on social science
research.
(C) The foundational components of a healthy
relationship and related research regarding the
individual, economic, and societal advantages of
bearing children within the context of a committed
marital relationship in order to form healthy marriages
and safe and stable families.
(D) The skills needed to resist the negative
influences of the pervasive sex-saturated culture that
presents teenage sexual activity as an expected norm,
with few risks or negative consequences.
(E) The understanding of how drugs, alcohol, and
the irresponsible use of social media can influence
sexual decisionmaking and can contribute to risky and
often aggressive sexual behavior.
(F) A focused priority on the superior health
benefits of sexual abstinence, ensuring that any
information provided on contraception does not
exaggerate its effectiveness in preventing sexually
transmitted diseases and pregnancies.
(c) Priority.--In awarding grants under subsection (a), the
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall give priority to
applicants proposing programs to provide qualified sexual risk
avoidance education that--
(1) will serve youth spanning ages 12 to 19; and
(2) will promote protective benefits of parent-child
communication regarding healthy sexual decisionmaking.
(d) Definitions.--In this Act:
(1) The term ``age appropriate'' means appropriate for the
general developmental and social maturity of the age group (as
opposed to the cognitive ability to understand a topic or the
atypical development of a small segment of the targeted
population).
(2) The term ``evidence-based approach'' means an approach
that--
(A) has a clear theoretical base that integrates
research findings with practical implementation
expertise that is relevant to the field;
(B) matches the needs and desired outcomes for the
intended audience; and
(C) if implemented well, will demonstrate improved
outcomes for the targeted population.
(3) The term ``medically accurate'' means referenced to
peer-reviewed research by medical, educational, scientific,
governmental, or public health publications, organizations, or
agencies.
(4) The term ``sexual abstinence'' means voluntarily
refraining from sexual activity.
(5) The term ``sexual activity'' means genital contact or
sexual stimulation including, but not limited to, sexual
intercourse.
(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--
(1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated
$110,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2017 to
carry out this Act. Amounts authorized to be appropriated by
the preceding sentence shall be derived exclusively from
amounts in the Prevention and Public Health Fund established by
section 4002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(42 U.S.C. 300u-11).
(2) Federal administrative costs.--Of the amount authorized
to be appropriated by paragraph (1) for a fiscal year--
(A) not more than $1,000,000 are authorized to be
used for Federal administrative costs; and
(B) of the amount used by the Secretary of Health
and Human Services for administrative costs, at least
40 percent shall be used for training and technical
assistance by qualified organizations--
(i) whose sole focus is the development and
advancement of abstinence education;
(ii) that have expertise in theory-based
abstinence education curriculum development and
implementation;
(iii) that have direct experience in
developing sexual risk avoidance evaluation
instruments; and
(iv) that can offer technical assistance
and training on a wide range of topics relevant
to the sexual risk avoidance (or abstinence
education) field.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H821)
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