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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 435
To prohibit the award of Federal funds to an institution of higher education
that hosts or is affiliated with a student-based service site that provides
abortion drugs or abortions to students of the institution or to employees
of the institution or site, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY20, 2023
Mr. R
OY(for himself, Mr. KELLYof Mississippi, Mr. MOOLENAAR, Mr.
F
EENSTRA, Mr. PFLUGER, Mr. DUNCAN, Mrs. MILLERof Illinois, Mr.
R
OSENDALE, Mr. PALMER, Mr. BANKS, Mr. JACKSONof Texas, Mr.
E
LLZEY, Ms. DELACRUZ, Mr. SELF, Mr. WALTZ, Mr. BIGGS, Mr.
W
EBERof Texas, Mr. MORAN, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. DAVIDSON, Mr. HIG-
GINSof Louisiana, Mr. KELLYof Pennsylvania, Mrs. MILLERof West
Virginia, Mr. O
GLES, Mr. GROTHMAN, and Mr. GOODof Virginia) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and the Workforce
A BILL
To prohibit the award of Federal funds to an institution
of higher education that hosts or is affiliated with a
student-based service site that provides abortion drugs
or abortions to students of the institution or to employ-
ees of the institution or site, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Life on Col-2
lege Campus Act of 2023’’. 3
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON AWARD OF FUNDS TO CERTAIN 4
INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. 5
(a) P
ROHIBITION.—No Federal funds may be award-6
ed (directly or indirectly, including through a contract or 7
subcontract) to any institution of higher education that 8
hosts or is affiliated with any school-based service site that 9
provides abortion drugs or abortions to students of the 10
institution or to employees of the institution or site. 11
(b) A
NNUALREPORTING.—To remain eligible for 12
awards of Federal funds, an institution of higher edu-13
cation that hosts or is affiliated with one or more school- 14
based service sites shall submit an annual report to the 15
Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health and 16
Human Services certifying that no such site provides abor-17
tion drugs or abortions to students of the institution or 18
to employees of the institution or site. 19
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 20
(1) The term ‘‘abortion drug’’ means any drug, 21
substance, or combination of drugs or substances 22
that is intended for use or that is in fact used (irre-23
spective of how the product is labeled)— 24
(A) to intentionally kill the unborn child of 25
a woman known to be pregnant; or 26
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(B) to intentionally terminate the preg-1
nancy of a woman known to be pregnant, with 2
an intention other than— 3
(i) to produce a live birth; 4
(ii) to remove a dead unborn child; or 5
(iii) to treat an ectopic pregnancy. 6
(2) The term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ 7
has the meaning given to such term in section 101 8
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 9
1001). 10
(3) The term ‘‘school-based service site’’ 11
means— 12
(A) a clinic providing health care services 13
(including primary health services, family plan-14
ning services, telehealth services, and pharma-15
ceutical services, without regard to whether the 16
services are provided by employees of the clinic 17
or contracted providers) to students that is lo-18
cated on the campus of an institution of higher 19
education that accepts Federal funding; and 20
(B) does not include a hospital (as defined 21
in section 1861(e) of the Social Security Act 22
(42 U.S.C. 1395x(e))). 23
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