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113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2599
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 28, 2013
Ms. Lee of California
(for herself, Ms. Clarke,
Mr. Rangel,
Ms. Wilson of Florida,
Mr. Serrano,
Ms. Norton,
Ms. Jackson Lee,
Mr. Ellison,
Mr. Lewis, and
Ms. Waters) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on
Energy and Commerce and
Financial Services, 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
A BILL
To reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections
in correctional facilities, and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Justice for the Unprotected against
Sexually Transmitted Infections among the Confined and Exposed
Act or the JUSTICE Act.
2.
Table of
contents
The table of contents
of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. Findings.
Sec. 4. Authority to allow community organizations to provide
STI counseling, STI prevention education, and sexual barrier protection devices
in Federal correctional facilities.
Sec. 5. Sense of Congress regarding distribution of sexual
barrier protection devices in State prison systems.
Sec. 6. Automatic enrollment or reinstatement of Medicaid
benefits.
Sec. 7. Survey of and report on correctional and immigration
detention facility programs aimed at reducing the spread of STIs.
Sec. 8. Strategy.
Sec. 9. Eligibility of persons discharged from correctional
facilities for McKinney-Vento Act housing assistance.
Sec. 10. Definitions.
Sec. 11. Appropriations.
3.
Findings
The Congress makes the following
findings:
(1) According to the Bureau of Justice
Statistics (BJS), 2,239,800 persons were incarcerated in State or Federal
prisons or local jails in the United States as of the end of 2011.
Additionally, one in every 34 United States residents was on probation, in jail
or prison, or on parole. During 2011, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
confined an additional 642,000 people. DHS held 429,000 of them in immigration
detention facilities.
(2) In 2010, 60
percent of incarcerated persons were racial or ethnic minorities. In 2011,
African-Americans males ages 18 to 19 were imprisoned at more than 9 times the
rate of their White counterparts. African-American men are incarcerated at a
rate more than 6 times that of White males, and 2.6 times that of Hispanic
males, despite similar rates of criminal activity.
(3) There is a
disproportionately high rate of HIV/AIDS among incarcerated persons, especially
among minorities. Rates of HIV diagnoses among persons tested in prisons in
2004 were higher in African-Americans and Hispanics than Whites. Approximately
1 in 7 people living with HIV will pass through the prison system each
year.
(4) In 2010, the
AIDS-related death rate among prisoners was more than 4 times higher among
African-Americans compared to Whites.
(5) Studies suggest
that other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as gonorrhea,
chlamydia, syphilis, genital herpes, viral hepatitis, and human papillomavirus,
also exist at a higher rate among incarcerated persons than in the general
population. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 16
percent to 41 percent of incarcerated persons have been infected with hepatitis
C (compared to 1 percent to 1.5 percent of the general population), and 12
percent to 35 percent of incarcerated persons are chronically infected with
hepatitis C.
(6) Many correctional
facilities in the United States do not provide comprehensive testing and
treatment programs to reduce the spread of STIs. According to BJS surveys from
2005, only 996 of the 1,821 Federal and State correctional facilities (i.e.,
54.7 percent) provided HIV/AIDS counseling programs.
(7) Individuals who
are enrolled in Medicaid prior to incarceration, including those who are
pending disposition and have not had a trial yet, face a suspension of their
benefits upon incarceration, and in some States a termination of their Medicaid
eligibility. The Federal Government encourages States to automatically
re-enroll incarcerated persons on Medicaid upon their release from a
correctional facility, unless the State reaches a determination that the
individual is no longer eligible for reasons other than their prior
incarceration.
(8) Formerly
incarcerated individuals who are newly released from correctional facilities
often face delays in the resumption of their Medicaid benefits which may
exacerbate any health issues which they face.
(9) Incarcerated
individuals living with HIV/AIDS who are eligible for Medicaid would benefit
from prompt and automatic enrollment upon their release in order to ensure
their continued ability to access health services, including antiretroviral
treatment.
(10) Correctional
facilities lack a uniform system of STI testing and reporting. Establishing a
uniform data collection system would assist in developing and targeting
counseling and treatment programs for incarcerated persons and can help reduce
the spread of STIs.
(11) Although Congress
has acted to reduce the spread of sexual violence in correctional facilities by
enacting the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003, BJS reported
that approximately 4.4 percent of incarcerated persons in prisons and 3.1
percent of persons in jail reported experiencing one or more incidents of
sexual victimization by another incarcerated person or correctional facility
staff in the previous year.
(12) According to CDC,
incarcerated persons do engage in sexual intercourse. The CDC finds that
correct and consistent male or female condom use effectively reduces the risk
of HIV and STI transmission and recommends HIV education and counseling in
prisons.
(13) Despite the
effectiveness of condoms in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS and STIs, the
Bureau of Prisons does not recommend their use in correctional
facilities.
(14) The distribution
of condoms in correctional facilities is currently legal in certain parts of
the United States and the world. The States of Vermont and Mississippi and the
District of Columbia allow condom distribution programs in their correctional
facilities. The cities of New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, DC,
and Philadelphia also allow condom distribution in their correctional
facilities. However, these States and cities operate less than 1 percent of all
correctional facilities.
(15) The American
Public Health Association, National Commission on Correctional Health Care
(NCCHC), Human Rights Watch, the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS, the
United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, UNAIDS, and the World Health
Organization have endorsed the effectiveness of condom distribution programs in
correctional facilities. The Global Commission on HIV and the Law further
recognizes that the lack of condoms exacerbates transmission risk.
4.
Authority to
allow community organizations to provide STI counseling, STI prevention
education, and sexual barrier protection devices in Federal correctional
facilities
(a)
Directive to
Attorney General
Not later
than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General
shall direct the Bureau of Prisons to allow community organizations to
distribute sexual barrier protection devices and to engage in STI counseling
and STI prevention education in Federal correctional facilities. These
activities shall be subject to all relevant Federal laws and regulations which
govern visitation in correctional facilities.
(b)
Information
requirement
Any community
organization permitted to distribute sexual barrier protection devices under
subsection (a) must ensure that the persons to whom the devices are distributed
are informed about the proper use and disposal of sexual barrier protection
devices in accordance with established public health practices. Any community
organization conducting STI counseling or STI prevention education under
subsection (a) must offer comprehensive sex education.
(c)
Possession of
device protected
No Federal correctional facility may, because of
the possession or use of a sexual barrier protection device—
(1) take adverse
action against an incarcerated person; or
(2) consider
possession or use as evidence of prohibited activity for the purpose of any
Federal correctional facility administrative proceeding.
(d)
Implementation
The
Attorney General and Bureau of Prisons shall implement this section according
to established public health practices in a manner that protects the health,
safety, and privacy of incarcerated persons and of correctional facility
staff.
5.
Sense of Congress
regarding distribution of sexual barrier protection devices in State prison
systems
It is the sense of
Congress that States should allow for the legal distribution of sexual barrier
protection devices in State correctional facilities to reduce the prevalence
and spread of STIs in those facilities.
6.
Automatic
enrollment or reinstatement of Medicaid benefits
(a)
In
general
Section 1902(e) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1396a(e)) is amended—
(1) by redesignating the paragraph (14) added
by section 3(c) of Public Law 111–255 as paragraph (15); and
(2) by adding at the
end the following new paragraph:
(16)
Enrollment of
ex-offenders
(A)
Automatic
enrollment or reinstatement
(i)
In
general
The State plan shall provide for the automatic enrollment
or reinstatement of enrollment of an eligible individual—
(I) if such individual
is scheduled to be released from a public institution due to the completion of
sentence, not less than 30 days prior to the scheduled date of the release;
and
(II) if such
individual is to be released from a public institution on parole or on
probation, as soon as possible after the date on which the determination to
release such individual was made, and before the date such individual is
released.
(ii)
Exception
If a State makes a determination that an
individual is not eligible to be enrolled under the State plan—
(I) on or before the
date by which the individual would be enrolled under
clause (i), such clause shall not apply
to such individual; or
(II) after such date,
the State may terminate the enrollment of such individual.
(B)
Relationship of
enrollment to payment for services
(i)
In
general
Subject to
subparagraph (A)(ii), an eligible
individual who is enrolled, or whose enrollment is reinstated, under
subparagraph (A) shall be eligible for
medical assistance that is provided after the date that the eligible individual
is released from the public institution.
(ii)
Relationship to
payment prohibition for inmates
No provision of this paragraph may be
construed to permit payment for care or services for which payment is excluded
under subparagraph (A) following paragraph (29) of section 1905(a).
(C)
Treatment of
continuous eligibility
(i)
Suspension for
inmates
Any period of continuous eligibility under this title
shall be suspended on the date an individual enrolled under this title becomes
an inmate of a public institution (except as a patient of a medical
institution).
(ii)
Determination
of remaining period
Notwithstanding any changes to State law
related to continuous eligibility during the time that an individual is an
inmate of a public institution (except as a patient of a medical institution),
subject to
clause (iii), with respect to an
eligible individual who was subject to a suspension under
subclause (I), on the date that
such individual is released from a public institution the suspension of
continuous eligibility under such subclause shall be lifted for a period that
is equal to the time remaining in the period of continuous eligibility for such
individual on the date that such period was suspended under such
subclause.
(iii)
Exception
If a State makes a determination that an
individual is not eligible to be enrolled under the State plan—
(I) on or before the
date that the suspension of continuous eligibility is lifted under
clause (ii), such clause shall not
apply to such individual; or
(II) after such date,
the State may terminate the enrollment of such individual.
(D)
Automatic
enrollment or reinstatement of enrollment defined
For purposes of this paragraph, the term
automatic enrollment or reinstatement of enrollment means that the
State determines eligibility for medical assistance under the State plan
without a program application from, or on behalf of, the eligible individual,
but an individual may only be automatically enrolled in the State Medicaid plan
if the individual affirmatively consents to being enrolled through affirmation
in writing, by telephone, orally, through electronic signature, or through any
other means specified by the Secretary.
(E)
Eligible
individual defined
For
purposes of this paragraph, the term eligible individual means an
individual who is an inmate of a public institution (except as a patient in a
medical institution)—
(i) who was enrolled under the State plan for
medical assistance immediately before becoming an inmate of such an
institution; or
(ii) is diagnosed with human immunodeficiency
virus.
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(b)
Supplemental
Funding for State Implementation of Automatic Reinstatement of Medicaid
Benefits
(1)
In
general
Subject to
paragraph (6), for each State for which
the Secretary of Health and Human Services has approved an application under
paragraph (3), the Federal matching
payments (including payments based on the Federal medical assistance
percentage) made to such State under section 1903 of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1396b) shall be increased by 5 percentage points for payments to the
State for the activities permitted under
paragraph (2) for a period of one
year.
(2)
Use of
funds
A State may only use increased matching payments authorized
under
paragraph (1)—
(A) to strengthen the
State’s enrollment and administrative resources for the purpose of improving
processes for enrolling (or reinstating the enrollment of) eligible individuals
(as such term is defined in section 1902(e)(15)(E) of the Social Security Act,
as added by subsection (a)); and
(B) for medical
assistance (as such term is defined in section 1905(a) of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(a))) provided to such eligible individuals.
(3)
Application and
agreement
The Secretary may only make payments to a State in the
increased amount if—
(A) the State has amended the State plan under
section 1902 of the Social Security Act to incorporate the requirements of
subsection (e)(15) of such section, as so added;
(B) the State has
submitted an application to the Secretary that includes a plan for implementing
such requirements under the State’s amended State plan before the end of the
90-day period beginning on the date that the State receives increased matching
payments under
paragraph (1);
(C) the State’s
application meets the satisfaction of the Secretary; and
(D) the State enters
an agreement with the Secretary that states that—
(i) the State will
only use the increased matching funds for the uses permitted under
paragraph (2); and
(ii) at the end of the period under
paragraph (1), the State will submit to
the Secretary, and make publicly available, a report that contains the
information required under
paragraph (4).
(4)
Required report
information
The information
that is required in the report under
paragraph (3)(D)(ii)
includes—
(A) the results of an
evaluation of the impact of the implementation of the requirements of section
1902(e)(15) of the Social Security Act on improving the State’s processes for
enrolling of individuals who are released for public institutions into the
Medicaid program;
(B) the number of
individuals who were automatically enrolled (or whose enrollment is reinstated)
under such section during the period under
paragraph (1); and
(C) any other
information that is required by the Secretary.
(5)
Increase in cap
on Medicaid payments to territories
Subject to
paragraph (6), the amounts otherwise
determined for Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, the
Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa under subsections (f) and (g) of
section 1108 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1308) shall each be
increased by the necessary amount to allow for the increase in the Federal
matching payments under
paragraph (1), but only for the period
under such paragraph for such State. In the case of such an increase for a
territory, subsection (a)(1) of such section 1108 shall be applied without
regard to any increase in payment made to the territory under part E of title
IV of such Act that is attributable to the increase in Federal medical
assistance percentage effected under
paragraph (1) for the territory.
(6)
Limitations
(A)
Timing
With respect to a State, at the end of the
period under
paragraph (1), no increased matching
payments may be made to such State under this subsection.
(B)
Maintenance of
eligibility
(i)
In
general
Subject to
clause (ii), a State is not
eligible for an increase in its Federal matching payments under
paragraph (1), or an increase in an
amount under
paragraph (5), if eligibility standards,
methodologies, or procedures under its State plan under title XIX of the Social
Security Act (including any waiver under such title or under section 1115 of
such Act (42 U.S.C. 1315)) are more restrictive than the eligibility standards,
methodologies, or procedures, respectively, under such plan (or waiver) as in
effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
(ii)
State
reinstatement of eligibility permitted
A State that has restricted eligibility
standards, methodologies, or procedures under its State plan under title XIX of
the Social Security Act (including any waiver under such title or under section
1115 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1315)) after the date of the enactment of this Act,
is no longer ineligible under
clause (i) beginning with the first
calendar quarter in which the State has reinstated eligibility standards,
methodologies, or procedures that are no more restrictive than the eligibility
standards, methodologies, or procedures, respectively, under such plan (or
waiver) as in effect on such date.
(C)
No waiver
authority
The Secretary may not waive the application of this
subsection under section 1115 of the Social Security Act or otherwise.
(D)
Limitation of
matching payments to 100 percent
In no case shall an increase in
Federal matching payments under this subsection result in Federal matching
payments that exceed 100 percent.
(7)
State
defined
In this subsection, the term State has the
meaning given such term for purposes of title XIX of the Social Security
Act.
(c)
Effective
date
(1)
In
general
Except as provided in
paragraph (2), the amendments made by
subsection (a) shall take effect 180 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to services
furnished on or after such date.
(2)
Rule for changes
requiring State legislation
In the case of a State plan for
medical assistance under title XIX of the Social Security Act which the
Secretary of Health and Human Services determines requires State legislation
(other than legislation appropriating funds) in order for the plan to meet the
additional requirements imposed by the amendments made by this subsection, the
State plan shall not be regarded as failing to comply with the requirements of
such title solely on the basis of its failure to meet these additional
requirements before the first day of the first calendar quarter beginning after
the close of the first regular session of the State legislature that begins
after the date of the enactment of this Act. For purposes of the previous
sentence, in the case of a State that has a 2-year legislative session, each
year of such session shall be deemed to be a separate regular session of the
State legislature.
7.
Survey of and
report on correctional and immigration detention facility programs aimed at
reducing the spread of STIs
(a)
Survey
The
Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, after consulting with
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, State officials, and community
organizations, shall, to the maximum extent practicable, conduct a survey of
all Federal and State correctional facilities and immigration detention
facilities, no later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act and
annually thereafter for 5 years, to determine the following:
(1)
Prevention
education offered
The type of prevention education, information,
or training offered to incarcerated persons and detainees and staff of
correctional and immigration detention facilities regarding sexual violence and
the spread of STIs, including whether such education, information, or
training—
(A) constitutes
comprehensive sex education;
(B) is compulsory for
new incarcerated persons and detainees and for new staff; and
(C) is offered on an
ongoing basis.
(2)
Access to sexual
barrier protection devices
Whether incarcerated persons and
detainees can—
(A) possess sexual
barrier protection devices;
(B) purchase sexual
barrier protection devices;
(C) purchase sexual
barrier protection devices at a reduced cost; and
(D) obtain sexual
barrier protection devices without cost.
(3)
Incidence of
sexual violence
The incidence of sexual violence and assault
committed by incarcerated persons and detainees, and by staff of correctional
and immigration detention facilities.
(4)
Counseling,
treatment, and supportive services
Whether the correctional or
immigration detention facility requires incarcerated persons and detainees to
participate in counseling, treatment, and supportive services related to STIs,
or whether it offers such programs to incarcerated persons and
detainees.
(5)
STI
testing
Whether the correctional or immigration detention
facility tests incarcerated persons and detainees for STIs or gives them the
option to undergo such testing—
(A) at intake;
(B) on a regular
basis; and
(C) prior to
release.
(6)
STI test
results
The number of incarcerated persons and detainees who are
tested for STIs and the outcome of such tests at each correctional or
immigration detention facility, disaggregated to include results
for—
(A) the type of
sexually transmitted infection tested for;
(B) the race and
ethnicity of individuals tested;
(C) the age of
individuals tested; and
(D) the gender of
individuals tested.
(7)
Pre-release
referral policy
Whether incarcerated persons and detainees are
informed prior to release about STI-related services or other health services
in their communities, including free and low-cost counseling and treatment
options.
(8)
Pre-release
referrals made
The number of referrals to community-based
organizations or public health facilities offering STI-related or other health
services provided to incarcerated persons and detainees prior to release, and
the type of counseling or treatment for which the referral was made.
(9)
Reinstatement of
medicaid benefits
Whether the correctional facility assists
incarcerated persons that were enrolled in the State Medicaid program prior to
their incarceration, in reinstating their enrollment upon release and whether
such individuals receive referrals as provided by paragraph (8) to entities
that accept the State Medicaid program, including if applicable—
(A) the number of such
individuals, including those diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus,
that have been reinstated;
(B) a list of
obstacles to reinstating enrollment or to making determinations of eligibility
for reinstatement, if any; and
(C) the number of
individuals denied enrollment.
(10)
Other actions
taken
Whether the correctional or immigration detention facility
has taken any other action, in conjunction with community organizations or
otherwise, to reduce the prevalence and spread of STIs in that facility.
(b)
Privacy
In
conducting the survey under subsection (a), the Attorney General and the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall not request or retain the identity of any
person who has sought or been offered counseling, treatment, testing, or
prevention education information regarding an STI (including information about
sexual barrier protection devices), or who has tested positive for an
STI.
(c)
Report
The
Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall transmit to
Congress and make publicly available the results of the survey required under
subsection (a), both for the Nation as a whole and disaggregated as to each
State and each correctional facility or immigration detention facility. To the
maximum extent possible, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland
Security shall issue the first report no later than 1 year after the date of
enactment of this Act and shall issue reports annually thereafter for 5
years.
8.
Strategy
(a)
Directive to
Attorney General
The Attorney
General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, State
officials, and community organizations, shall develop and implement a 5-year
strategy to reduce the prevalence and spread of STIs in Federal and State
correctional facilities. To the maximum extent possible, the strategy shall be
developed, transmitted to Congress, and made publicly available no later than
180 days after the transmission of the first report required under section 7(c)
of this Act.
(b)
Contents of
strategy
The strategy shall include the following:
(1)
Prevention
education
A plan for improving prevention education, information,
and training offered to incarcerated persons and correctional facility staff,
including information and training on sexual violence and the spread of STIs,
and comprehensive sex education.
(2)
Sexual barrier
protection device access
A plan for expanding access to sexual
barrier protection devices in correctional facilities.
(3)
Sexual violence
reduction
A plan for reducing the incidence of sexual violence
among incarcerated persons and correctional facility staff, developed in
consultation with the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission.
(4)
Counseling and
supportive services
A plan for expanding access to counseling and
supportive services related to STIs in correctional facilities.
(5)
Testing
A
plan for testing incarcerated persons for STIs during intake, during regular
health exams, and prior to release, and that—
(A) is conducted in
accordance with guidelines established by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention;
(B) includes pretest
counseling;
(C) requires that
incarcerated persons are notified of their option to decline testing at any
time;
(D) requires that incarcerated persons are
confidentially notified of their test results in a timely manner; and
(E) ensures that
incarcerated persons testing positive for STIs receive posttest counseling,
care, treatment, and supportive services.
(6)
Treatment
A
plan for ensuring that correctional facilities have the necessary medicine and
equipment to treat and monitor STIs and for ensuring that incarcerated persons
living with or testing positive for STIs receive and have access to care and
treatment services.
(7)
Strategies for
demographic groups
A plan for developing and implementing
culturally appropriate, sensitive, and specific strategies to reduce the spread
of STIs among demographic groups heavily impacted by STIs.
(8)
Discharge and
return to society
A plan to improve pre-release discharge
planning for inmates, especially those with HIV/AIDS, to access essential
services.
(9)
Linkages with
communities and facilities
A
plan for establishing and strengthening linkages to local communities and
health facilities that—
(A) provide
counseling, testing, care, and treatment services;
(B) may receive
persons recently released from incarceration who are living with STIs;
and
(C) accept payment
through the State Medicaid program.
(10)
Enrollment in
State Medicaid programs
Plans to ensure that incarcerated persons
who were—
(A) enrolled in their
State Medicaid program prior to incarceration in a correctional facility are
automatically re-enrolled in such program upon their release; and
(B) not enrolled in
their State Medicaid program prior to incarceration, but who are diagnosed with
the human immunodeficiency virus while incarcerated in a correctional facility,
are automatically enrolled in such program upon their release.
(11)
Other
plans
Any other plans developed by the Attorney General for
reducing the spread of STIs or improving the quality of health care in
correctional facilities.
(12)
Monitoring
system
A monitoring system that establishes performance goals
related to reducing the prevalence and spread of STIs in correctional
facilities and which, where feasible, expresses such goals in quantifiable
form.
(13)
Monitoring
system performance indicators
Performance indicators that measure
or assess the achievement of the performance goals described in paragraph
(12).
(14)
Cost
estimate
A detailed estimate of the funding necessary to
implement the strategy at the Federal and State levels for all 5 years,
including the amount of funds required by community organizations to implement
the parts of the strategy in which they take part.
(c)
Report
The Attorney General shall transmit to
Congress and make publicly available an annual progress report regarding the
implementation and effectiveness of the strategy described in subsection (a).
The progress report shall include an evaluation of the implementation of the
strategy using the monitoring system and performance indicators provided for in
paragraphs (12) and (13) of subsection (b).
9.
Eligibility of
persons discharged from correctional facilities for McKinney-Vento Act housing
assistance
Section 401 of the
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360) is amended—
(1) by redesignating
paragraphs (9) through (33) as paragraphs (10) through (34), respectively;
and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (8) the
following new paragraph:
(9)
Homeless
Notwithstanding section 103(d), the terms
homeless, homeless individual, and homeless
person include an individual who—
(A) is being released
from any prison, penitentiary, adult detention facility, juvenile detention
facility, jail, or other facility to which persons may be sent after conviction
of a crime or act of juvenile delinquency within any State; and
(B) has been diagnosed with any sexually
transmitted infection (as such term is defined in section 10 of the
JUSTICE
Act).
.
10.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Act:
(1)
Community
Organization
The term
community organization means a public health care facility or a
nonprofit organization which provides health- or STI-related services according
to established public health standards.
(2)
Comprehensive
sex education
The term comprehensive sex education
means a program that—
(A) includes age- and
developmentally appropriate, culturally and linguistically relevant information
on a broad set of topics related to sexuality including human development,
relationships, decisionmaking, communication, abstinence, contraception, and
disease and pregnancy prevention;
(B) provides students
with opportunities for developing skills as well as learning
information;
(C) is inclusive of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual young people; and
(D) aims to—
(i) provide
scientifically accurate and realistic information about human sexuality;
(ii) provide
opportunities for individuals to understand their own, their families’, and
their communities’ values, attitudes, and insights about sexuality;
(iii) help individuals
develop healthy relationships and interpersonal skills; and
(iv) help individuals
exercise responsibility regarding sexual relationships, which includes
addressing abstinence, pressures to become prematurely involved in sexual
intercourse, and the use of contraception and other sexual health
measures.
(3)
Correctional
Facility
The term
correctional facility means any prison, penitentiary, adult
detention facility, juvenile detention facility, jail, or other facility to
which persons may be sent after conviction of a crime or act of juvenile
delinquency within the United States.
(4)
Detainee
The
term detainee means any person held by the Department of Homeland
Security whether in criminal or civil confinement.
(5)
Immigration
detention facility
The term immigration detention
facility means a confinement facility operated by or pursuant to
contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that routinely
holds persons pending resolution or completion of immigration removal
operations or processes, including facilities that are operated by ICE,
facilities that provide detention services under a contract awarded by ICE, or
facilities used by ICE pursuant to an Intergovernmental Service
Agreement.
(6)
Incarcerated
Person
The term
incarcerated person means any person who is serving a sentence in
a correctional facility after conviction of a crime.
(7)
Sexually
Transmitted Infection
The
term sexually transmitted infection or STI means any
disease or infection that is commonly transmitted through sexual activity,
including HIV/AIDS, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, genital herpes, viral
hepatitis, and human papillomavirus.
(8)
Sexual Barrier
Protection Device
The term
sexual barrier protection device—
(A) means any Food and
Drug Administration-approved physical device which has not been tampered with
and which reduces the probability of STI transmission or infection between
sexual partners, including female condoms, male condoms, and dental dams;
and
(B) includes
water-based lubricants that have been shown to reduce the probability of condom
breakage.
(9)
State
The
term State includes the District of Columbia, American Samoa, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United
States Virgin Islands.
11.
Appropriations
(a)
In
general
There are authorized
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act for each
of the fiscal years 2014 through 2020.
(b)
Availability of
funds
Amounts made available under subsection (a) are authorized
to remain available until expended.