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Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act of 2023
12/15/2023, 3:58 PM
Summary of Bill HR 3583
The bill aims to ensure that students receive accurate and age-appropriate information about sexual health, including topics such as contraception, consent, and healthy relationships. It also seeks to promote the importance of abstinence as a part of a comprehensive sexual education curriculum.
Additionally, the Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act of 2023 includes provisions to support teacher training and professional development in the area of sexual education. This is intended to ensure that educators are equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively teach this important subject matter. Overall, this bill is focused on promoting the health and well-being of young people by providing them with the information they need to make informed decisions about their sexual health. It emphasizes the importance of comprehensive sexual education in schools and aims to ensure that all students have access to this important information.
Congressional Summary of HR 3583
Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act of 2023
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish grants to support sex education and sexual health services for young people (ages 10 through 29) and repeals requirements that apply to certain federally funded sex education programs.
HHS must award grants, in coordination with the Department of Education, to (1) provide sex education to young people; and (2) train education professionals to effectively teach, and otherwise support, sex education. Sex education refers to high quality teaching and learning that
- follows, to the maximum extent practicable, specified educational standards;
- covers a variety of topics concerning sex and sexuality;
- explores values and beliefs about those topics; and
- helps young people gain skills to navigate relationships and manage sexual health.
Additionally, HHS must award grants to youth-serving organizations and health care entities that are eligible to receive covered outpatient drugs at reduced prices through the 340B drug discount program for providing sexual health services to marginalized youth.
Recipients of any of these grants must comply with certain nondiscrimination requirements. In addition, they may not use funds for sex education programs or sexual health services that provide incomplete or inaccurate medical information or fail to address specified issues.
The bill also eliminates prohibitions regarding the content of specified federally funded sexual health education and information programs and repeals the Abstinence Only Until Marriage program.
