[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 926 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 926

   To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit Federal 
  education funding for elementary or secondary schools that provide 
             access to emergency postcoital contraception.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 26, 2003

Ms. Hart (for herself, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Terry, 
  Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. 
Lewis of Kentucky, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. Pence, Mr. Akin, Mr. 
Kennedy of Minnesota, Mr. Rogers of Michigan, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, 
Mr. Forbes, Mr. Ryun of Kansas, Mr. DeMint, Mrs. Myrick, Mr. Paul, Mr. 
 Burton of Indiana, Mr. Schrock, Mr. Renzi, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mr. 
  King of Iowa, Mrs. Jo Ann Davis of Virginia, Mr. Beauprez, Mr. Sam 
Johnson of Texas, Mr. Kline, Mr. Weldon of Florida, Mr. Hoekstra, Mrs. 
 Northup, Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin, Mr. Shadegg, Mr. Souder, Mr. Pearce, 
Mr. Hostettler, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Flake, Mr. Brady of Texas, Mr. Vitter, 
 Mr. Toomey, Mr. LaHood, Mr. Stearns, and Mr. Norwood) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit Federal 
  education funding for elementary or secondary schools that provide 
             access to emergency postcoital contraception.

    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 ``Schoolchildren's Health Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SCHOOLCHILDREN'S HEALTH PROTECTION.

    The General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1221 et seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new part:

              ``PART E--SCHOOLCHILDREN'S HEALTH PROTECTION

``SEC. 461. LIMITATION ON FUNDING.

    ``Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law, no funds 
shall be made available from any applicable program to a State 
educational agency or local educational agency that distributes or 
provides to an unemancipated minor, on the premises or in the 
facilities of an elementary school or secondary school, postcoital 
emergency contraception (such as the so-called `morning-after pill') or 
a prescription for such contraception.

``SEC. 462. DEFINITIONS.

    ``In this part:
            ``(1) The term `postcoital emergency contraception' means 
        any of the regimens described in the notice entitled 
        `Prescription Drug Products; Certain Combined Oral 
        Contraceptives for Use as Postcoital Emergency Contraception', 
        published in the Federal Register on February 25, 1997 (62 FR 
        8610), or any subsequent corresponding notice.
            ``(2) The term `unemancipated minor' means an unmarried 
        individual under 18 years old who is--
                    ``(A) a dependent (as defined in section 152(a) of 
                the Internal Revenue Code of 1986); and
                    ``(B) not emancipated under an applicable State 
                law.''.
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