Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019
Latest action · May 15, 2019 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.
- IntroducedMay 14, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in coordination with certain HHS components, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Education, to award grants for comprehensive sex education for adolescents. It also awards grants for comprehensive sex education provided by institutions of higher education and for training faculty and staff to teach comprehensive sex education to adolescents. Comprehensive sex education programs may include, among other things, instruction that addresses the physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions of human sexuality and approaches designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their sexual health, prevent disease and reduce sexual health-related risk behaviors.
Grant funds generally may not be used for specified purposes, including to (1) withhold specified health information related to HIV, (2) provide medically inaccurate information, or (3) promote gender or racial stereotypes.
The bill also
- revises requirements and eliminates prohibitions regarding the content of educational programs funded through the HIV/AIDS prevention program,
- repeals the prohibition on using funds for materials or programs that promote or encourage sexual activity and contraceptive distribution in school, and
- repeals the Abstinence Only Until Marriage program.
Cosponsors 84
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 14, 2019 to Nov 5, 2020; 34 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Adam B. Schiff | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-NC | Alma S. Adams | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-PA | Dwight Evans | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-MN | Ilhan Omar | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-CA | Jackie Speier | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | Original | May 14, 2019 |
| D-NY | Jose E. Serrano | Original | May 14, 2019 |
Committees 2
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 May 14, 2019 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred May 15, 2019 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred May 14, 2019 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 15, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 14, 2019Introduced in House
- May 14, 2019Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 80, May 14, 2019, pages H3791, H3790.
Related bills 4
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1524 | Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019 | Related bill | May 16, 2019 |
| HR 3602 | Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2017 | Reintroduction of | Aug 4, 2017 |
| S 4819 | Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2020 | Related bill | Oct 20, 2020 |
| HR 6637 | Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2020 | Related bill | Jul 9, 2020 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for the overall health and well-being of young people, including the promotion of lifelong sexual health and healthy relationships, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Appropriations
- Child care and development
- Child health
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Education programs funding
- Elementary and secondary education
- Family planning and birth control
- Family relationships
- Health
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Higher education
- HIV/AIDS
- Indian social and development programs
- Medical research
- Minority education
- Sex and reproductive health
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Teaching, teachers, curricula
- Women's health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 14, 2019Introduced 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.
