House Bill 2028
115th Congress(2017-2018)
Healthy Relationships Act of 2017
Introduced
Introduced in House on Apr 6, 2017
Origin Chamber
House
Type
Bill
Bill
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Bill Number
2028
Congress
115
Policy Area
Health
Health
Primary focus of measure is science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease; health services administration and funding, including such programs as Medicare and Medicaid; health personnel and medical education; drug use and safety; health care coverage and insurance; health facilities. Measures concerning controlled substances and drug trafficking may fall under Crime and Law Enforcement policy area.
No House votes have been held for this bill.
Summary
Healthy Relationships Act of 2017
This bill authorizes the Administration for Children & Families of the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to public and private entities for the exclusive purpose of providing qualified sexual risk avoidance education to youth and their parents.
Such education must address specified topics, including:
- benefits associated with personal responsibility and healthy decisionmaking;
- the advantage of reserving sexual activity for marriage;
- the skills needed to resist the harms associated with pornography and pervasive, sex-saturated culture;
- the foundational components of healthy relationships; and
- how to resist and avoid sexual coercion and dating violence.
Priority in awarding grants must be given to applicants who propose sexual risk avoidance education programs that will regularly reinforce the sexual risk avoidance message in both the middle and high school grades and will promote parent-child communication on the benefits of avoiding all sexual risk.
April 6, 2017
04/07/2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
04/06/2017
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
04/06/2017
Introduced in House
Public Record
Record Updated
Jan 11, 2023 1:36:01 PM