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HR 4034 112th Congress House Education Child safety and welfare Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Family planning and birth control Government lending and loan guarantees Higher education Sex and reproductive health Student aid and college costs Teenage pregnancy

Mentor-Mentee Teen Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2012

Introduced: February 15, 2012 Introduced by: Velázquez, Nydia M. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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Mar 29, 2012
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Mar 29, 2012
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Feb 15, 2012
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
Feb 15, 2012
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Mentor-Mentee Teen Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2012 - Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) 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 individuals 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.

What's happening now March 29, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

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