To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require medically accurate factual information in any course material or instruction on human development and sexuality.

February 13, 2003

Mr. GUTIERREZ (for himself, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. EVANS, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. PAYNE, and Mr. GRIJALVA) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require medically accurate factual information in any course material or instruction on human development and sexuality.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Medically Accurate Sex Education Act'.

SEC. 2. MEDICALLY ACCURATE SEX EDUCATION.

(a) IN GENERAL- The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 9528 (20 U.S.C. 7908) the following:

`SEC. 9528A. MEDICALLY ACCURATE SEX EDUCATION.

`(a) REQUIREMENT- An elementary school or secondary school receiving funds under this Act shall not provide factual information that is not medically accurate in course material or instruction on human development and sexuality, including any sex education, family life education, abstinence education, comprehensive health education, or character education.

`(b) DEFINITIONS- In this section:

`(1) The term `factual information' includes information related to medical, psychiatric, psychological, empirical, or statistical statements.

`(2) The term `medically accurate' means supported by research, recognized as accurate and objective by leading medical, psychological, psychiatric, and public health organizations and agencies, and, where relevant, published in peer-reviewed journals.'.

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT- The table of contents at section 2 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 9528 the following:

`Sec. 9528A. Medically accurate sex education'.

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