[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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