Family Life Education Act
Latest action · Dec 28, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedDec 12, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Expresses the sense of Congress that States should, but need not, provide matching funds.
Requires the Secretary to provide for national evaluation of a representative sample of such programs for effectiveness in changing adolescent sexual behavior, including the delay of sexual and high-risk activity, the prevention of pregnancy and disease (including HIV/AIDS), and the increase of contraceptive knowledge.
Cosponsors 89
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 12, 2001 to Oct 16, 2002; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-PA | James C. Greenwood | Original | Dec 12, 2001 |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Original | Dec 12, 2001 |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-WA | Brian Baird | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-TX | Charles A. Gonzalez | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| R-MD | Constance A. Morella | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-AL | Earl F. Hilliard | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-AZ | Ed Pastor | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Henry A. Waxman | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-ME | John Elias Baldacci | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-FL | Karen L. Thurman | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Louise McIntosh Slaughter | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Lucille Roybal-Allard | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-HI | Neil Abercrombie | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-NJ | Robert E. Andrews | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-NJ | Rush Holt | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-OH | Stephanie Tubbs Jones | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-WI | Tammy Baldwin | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-LA | William J. Jefferson | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-OR | David Wu | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-NC | Eva M. Clayton | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-TN | Harold E. Ford Jr. | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-CT | James H. Maloney | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-IL | Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-TX | Martin Frost | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Sam Farr | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Susan A. Davis | Apr 30, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Diane E. Watson | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-CA | George Miller | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-MA | John W. Olver | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Maxine Waters | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-WA | Rick Larsen | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | May 9, 2002 | |
| D-IN | Julia Carson | May 15, 2002 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | May 15, 2002 | |
| D-NJ | Steven R. Rothman | May 15, 2002 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | May 23, 2002 | |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | May 23, 2002 | |
| D-CO | Mark Udall | May 23, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Robert T. Matsui | May 23, 2002 | |
| D-MI | Sander M. Levin | May 23, 2002 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Jun 11, 2002 | |
| D-IL | Lane Evans | Jun 11, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Nancy Pelosi | Jun 11, 2002 | |
| D-HI | Patsy T. Mink | Jun 11, 2002 | |
| R-CT | Rob Simmons | Jun 11, 2002 | |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Jun 11, 2002 | |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Jun 19, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Ellen O. Tauscher | Jun 19, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Joe Baca | Jun 19, 2002 | |
| D-MA | John F. Tierney | Jun 19, 2002 | |
| D-MI | David E. Bonior | Jul 15, 2002 | |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Jul 15, 2002 | |
| D-IL | Rod R. Blagojevich | Jul 15, 2002 | |
| D-OR | Darlene Hooley | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Joseph Crowley | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-CA | Loretta Sanchez | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-WA | Norman D. Dicks | Sep 4, 2002 | |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | Oct 16, 2002 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Dec 12, 2001 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Dec 28, 2001 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 28, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Dec 12, 2001Introduced in House
- Dec 12, 2001Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 107-87 | WELFARE REFORM REAUTHORIZATION PROPOSALS403 pages | Ways and Means Committee | Apr 11, 2002 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for the reduction of adolescent pregnancy, HIV rates, and other sexually transmitted diseases, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Family Life Education Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- AIDS (Disease)
- Alcohol and youth
- Child development
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Contraceptives
- Dating (Social customs)
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse prevention
- Drugs and youth
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational accountability
- Elementary and secondary education
- Families
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to youth services
- Health
- Health education
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Job hunting
- Labor and Employment
- Lifestyle
- Marriage
- Minorities
- Multiculturalism
- Parent and child
- Preventive medicine
- Sex education
- Sexual abstinence
- Sexual harassment
- Sexual orientation
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social life and customs
- Stress (Psychology)
- Teenage pregnancy
- Women
- Youth
- Youth employment
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 12, 2001Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
