S 923
114th Congress
Senate
Health
Child health
Family planning and birth control
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Marriage and family status
Sex and reproductive health
Sexually transmitted diseases
Teenage pregnancy
Healthy Relationships Act of 2015
Introduced: April 14, 2015
Introduced by:
Graham, Lindsey
Republican
· South Carolina
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 14, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Apr 14, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Healthy Relationships Act of 2015
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Health Resources and Services Administration to award grants for qualified sexual risk avoidance education for youth and their parents.
The unambiguous message that postponing sexual activity is the optimal sexual health behavior for youth must be the primary emphasis and context for each topic covered by the education. The education must be age appropriate, medically accurate, and evidence based.
The education must address specified topics, including:
- the benefits associated with personal responsibility, success sequencing (sequential progression through: completing school, securing a job, and marrying before bearing children), goal setting, healthy decision making, and a focus on the future;
- the research-based advantage of reserving sexual activity for marriage;
- the skills needed to resist the pervasive, sex-saturated culture;
- the foundational components of healthy relationships; and
- how to avoid sexual coercion, dating violence, and risk behaviors, such as drugs, alcohol, and the misuse of social media.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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