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HR 5810 110th Congress House

Mentor-Mentee Teen Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2008

Official title: To amend title V of the Social Security Act to provide grants for school-based mentoring programs for at risk teenage girls to prevent and reduce teen pregnanc… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend title V of the Social Security Act to provide grants for school-based mentoring programs for at risk teenage girls to prevent and reduce teen pregnancy, and to provide student loan forgiveness for mentors participating in such programs.

Introduced: April 15, 2008 Introduced by: Velázquez, Nydia M. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
Education Child developmentChild welfareCompensatory educationCounseling
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Economics and Public FinanceElementary and secondary educationElementary educationFamiliesFederal aid to educationFederally-guaranteed loansGovernment lendingHigher educationMentoringSecondary educationSex educationSexual abstinenceSocial WelfareStudent loan fundsTeacher educationTeenage pregnancyWomen
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Apr 16, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 15, 2008
Referred 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.
Apr 15, 2008
Introduced in House
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 Latest action April 16, 2008

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Mentor-Mentee Teen Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2008 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award competitive grants to local educational agencies or community-based organizations for the creation of school-based programs that provide mentoring to at-risk teenage girls to prevent and reduce teen pregnancy.

Requires program mentors to be women who: (1) have received at least a baccalaureate degree from an institution of higher education; (2) are mentoring no more than two program mentees; and (3) are trained and screened to encourage mentees to engage in responsible, goal-orientated behavior, delay their sexual activity, and increase their participation in school.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide student loan forgiveness, under the Federal Family Education Loan, Direct Loan, or Perkins Loan programs of the Higher Education Act of 1965, to program mentors who serve for at least 200 hours in an academic year.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5810: Mentor-Mentee Teen Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2008. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-5810/
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"H.R. 5810: Mentor-Mentee Teen Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2008." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-5810/.
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H.R. 5810, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-5810/.
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