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Introduced May 22, 2025 by Cory Anthony Booker · Last progress May 22, 2025
This bill trades substantial federal investment and standardized, inclusive, evidence‑based sexual health education and services for increased federal spending and administrative/compliance requirements that may strain local control, smaller providers, and prompt community disputes.
Students and young people nationwide will gain access to comprehensive, medically accurate, and inclusive sexual health education and services (including contraception, HPV vaccine, PrEP/PEP, consent, and gender‑inclusive content).
Historically underserved groups (Black, Indigenous, Latine, AANHPI youth, low‑income youth, LGBTQ+ youth, and Tribal communities) will receive targeted resources and priorities to reduce disparities in STIs, unintended pregnancy, and sexual violence.
State, local, and campus programs will get sustained federal grant funding (including an authorization up to $100M/year, multi‑year grants and set‑asides for research, training, and evaluation) to expand sexual health education and services.
Taxpayers will bear increased federal spending obligations (authorized grants, program funding, and evaluation/reporting costs, including $100M/year authorization), raising federal fiscal outlays.
Schools, colleges, nonprofits, and local providers face substantial administrative and compliance burdens (grant applications, reporting, data collection, training, and evaluation), which can divert staff time and funds and disproportionately burden smaller organizations.
Recipients risk losing federal funding if curricula or materials are judged noncompliant with the Act’s standards, which could limit local curricular diversity and reduce local control.
Based on analysis of 12 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes $100M/year (FY2026–2031) for competitive grants to expand medically accurate, inclusive sex education and youth‑friendly sexual health services with reporting and evaluation.
Creates a federal grant program and authorizes $100 million per year (FY2026–2031) to expand evidence‑informed, inclusive sex education and youth‑friendly sexual health services for young people. It defines program terms, sets eligibility and priority rules for K–12, higher education, and community providers, reserves set shares of funding for specific uses (training, services, research, evaluation), and requires reporting and an independent impact evaluation. Limits how federal funds under the law may be used by barring programs that provide medically inaccurate information, withhold lifesaving health information, exclude or be insensitive to underserved groups, or fail to meet specified inclusivity, accessibility, or ethical standards. The law also prohibits discrimination in funded activities and preserves other federal and state legal rights.