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113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2943
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 1, 2013
Mr. Lamborn (for
himself, Mr. Huelskamp,
Mr. Aderholt,
Mr. Westmoreland,
Mr. Cole, Mr. Franks of Arizona,
Mr. Jones,
Mr. Fleming,
Mr. Miller of Florida,
Mrs. Bachmann, and
Mr. Roe of Tennessee) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the
Workforce
A BILL
To amend the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit
Federal education funding for elementary or secondary schools that provide
access to emergency postcoital contraception.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Schoolchildren’s Health Protection
Act.
2.
Schoolchildren’s
health protection
The General
Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1221 et seq.) is amended by adding at the
end the following new part:
E
Schoolchildren’s
health protection
461.
Limitations on
funding
Notwithstanding any
other provision of Federal law, no funds may be made available from any
applicable program to a State educational agency or local educational agency
that—
(1) distributes or
provides, or permits the distribution or provision of, postcoital emergency
contraception (such as the so-called morning-after pill), or a
prescription for such contraception, on the premises, or in the facilities, of
an elementary school or secondary school; or
(2) enters into a contract or other agreement
relating to the provision of health services to students under the jurisdiction
of the agency with a school-based health center unless such center agrees that
it will not provide postcoital emergency contraception, or a prescription for
such contraception, to any such student pursuant to the contract or
agreement.
462.
Definitions
In this part:
(1) The term
postcoital emergency contraception means—
(A) any of the
regimens described in the notice entitled Prescription Drug Products;
Certain Combined Oral Contraceptives for Use as Postcoital Emergency
Contraception, published in the Federal Register on February 25, 1997
(62 Fed. Reg. 8610), or any subsequent corresponding notice; or
(B) any other drug or
device to be used after fertilization may have occurred and for the same
purposes as the regimes in subparagraph (A).
(2) The term
school-based health center has the meaning given such term in
section 2110(c)(9) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
1397jj(c)(9)).
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