[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6173 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6173

   To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit Federal 
  education funding for elementary schools and secondary schools that 
            provide on-campus access to abortion providers.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2012

  Mr. Neugebauer (for himself, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Akin, Mr. 
Latta, Mr. Harris, Mr. Nunnelee, Mr. Huelskamp, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Landry, 
  Mr. Griffin of Arkansas, Mr. Pompeo, Mr. Lamborn, Mrs. Schmidt, Mr. 
  Marchant, Mr. Hultgren, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Renacci, Mr. Huizenga of 
Michigan, Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. Scalise, Mr. Mica, Mr. Sam Johnson 
of Texas, Mr. Paul, Mrs. Hartzler, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Flores, Mr. Burton 
of Indiana, Mr. Jones, Mrs. Black, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Brady of 
 Texas, Mr. Fleming, Mr. Olson, Mrs. Roby, Mr. Canseco, and Mr. Poe of 
    Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit Federal 
  education funding for elementary schools and secondary schools that 
            provide on-campus access to abortion providers.

    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 ``Protecting Life in Funding Education 
Act'' or the ``PRO-LIFE Act''.

SEC. 2. SCHOOLCHILDREN'S PROTECTION FROM ABORTION PROVIDERS.

    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 PROTECTION FROM ABORTION PROVIDERS

``SEC. 470. SCHOOLCHILDREN'S PROTECTION FROM ABORTION PROVIDERS.

    ``(a) Limitation on Funding.--Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, no funds shall be made available under any applicable program 
to any State educational agency or local educational agency that enters 
into a contract or other agreement with a school-based health center 
relating to the provision of health services to students served by the 
agency unless such center certifies that--
            ``(1) the center will not perform an abortion; and
            ``(2) the center will not provide abortion-related 
        materials, referrals, suggestions, or directions for abortion 
        services to any such student.
    ``(b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this part shall be 
construed to prevent a school-based health center from providing non-
abortion health services to pregnant students.
    ``(c) Definitions.--For purposes of this part:
            ``(1) ESEA terms.--The terms `local educational agency' and 
        `State educational agency' have the meanings given the terms in 
        section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
        1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
            ``(2) School-based health center.--The term `school-based 
        health center' has the meaning given such term in section 
        2110(c)(9) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
        1397jj(c)(9)).''.
                                 <all>