[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2458 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2458

   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

                              May 18, 2009

 Mr. Lamborn (for himself, Mr. Akin, Mrs. Bachmann, Mr. Bartlett, Mrs. 
Blackburn, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Brady of Texas, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. 
 Calvert, Mr. Conaway, Ms. Fallin, Mr. Fleming, Mr. Franks of Arizona, 
Mr. Gingrey of Georgia, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Hensarling, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. 
 Hunter, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jordan of Ohio, Mr. 
   King of Iowa, Mr. Kline of Minnesota, Mr. Latta, Mr. Linder, Mr. 
 Marchant, Mr. McClintock, Mr. McCotter, Mr. McHenry, Mr. McKeon, Mrs. 
 McMorris Rodgers, Mr. Moran of Kansas, Mr. Neugebauer, Mr. Pence, Mr. 
Pitts, Mrs. Schmidt, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Souder, Mr. Tiahrt, Mr. Wittman, 
  and Mr. Miller of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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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 postcoital emergency contraception (such as the so-called 
`morning-after pill') or a prescription for such contraception on the 
premises, or in the facilities, of an elementary school or secondary 
school.

``SEC. 462. DEFINITION.

    ``In this part, the term `postcoital emergency contraception' 
means--
            ``(1) 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; or
            ``(2) any other drug or device to be used after 
        fertilization may have occurred and for the same purposes as 
        the regimes in subparagraph (A).''.
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