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H.R. 2720: Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019

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H.R. 2720: Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019

116th Congress · introduced 2019-05-14 · Health · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-05-14 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019

Plain 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.

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Official text

Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2019

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-13] · 84 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Alma S. Adams (D-NC), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), Norma J. Torres (D-CA), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Rick Larsen (D-WA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Adam Smith (D-WA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Bill Foster (D-IL), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL) and 24 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr2720 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116