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Introduced May 22, 2025 by Cory Anthony Booker · Last progress May 22, 2025
Provides federal funding and grant programs to expand comprehensive, evidence-informed, and inclusive sex education and youth-friendly sexual health services for young people ages 10–29. It defines required content and service standards, sets nondiscrimination rules, requires reporting and an independent multi-year evaluation, and authorizes $100 million per year for FY2026–FY2031 (available until expended). The law directs HHS (in coordination with Education) to award competitive grants to schools, institutions of higher education, community providers, and training organizations, reserves part of funding for research/training/technical assistance, and transfers and repeals an existing related Social Security Act program to support these activities.
The bill substantially expands funded, evidence‑based, and inclusive sexual health education and services for young people—especially underserved groups—while increasing federal spending and imposing new compliance, reporting, and curricular requirements that may prompt local resistance, administrative burdens, and legal disputes.
Students and young people nationwide will gain substantially expanded access to comprehensive, medically accurate sex education and sexual health services (in schools, colleges, and community programs) backed by a multi-year federal authorization of funding.
Young people will receive better prevention and harm-reduction information and services (contraception, STI testing/treatment, HPV vaccination, PrEP/PEP, and injection‑related risk education), which should reduce STIs, unintended pregnancy, and substance‑use harms.
Underserved and historically marginalized youth (including Black, Indigenous, Latine, low‑income, LGBTQ+, and disabled students) will receive targeted, culturally responsive, trauma‑informed programming and prioritized grant investments to narrow health and access disparities.
Taxpayers face new and recurring federal costs (authorization of roughly $100 million per year for multiple years plus multi‑year grant programs and evaluations), which could displace other priorities or require higher appropriations.
Mandating comprehensive, evidence‑based, and specified curricular content (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and national standards) reduces local curricular flexibility and is likely to provoke parental, community, and state pushback or legal challenges.
New application, reporting, evaluation, and nondiscrimination compliance requirements impose administrative burdens and costs on grantees, schools, colleges, tribes, and nonprofits—disadvantaging smaller community providers and reducing funds available for services.