Sec. 6. Program for reproductive health education
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as the Secretary ), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration and in consultation with the Administrator of the Administration for Community Living, shall award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities to provide funding for education programs focused on sexual and reproductive health needs for individuals with disabilities. To be eligible to receive an award under this section an entity shall be a public or private nonprofit entity with a demonstrated expertise in serving individuals with disabilities, which may include— a multidisciplinary health care provider who provides reproductive health care services, such as a Federally qualified health center and title X clinics; institutions of higher education, as defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, with expertise in reproductive health care; an entity primarily led by individuals with disabilities; an entity with expertise in reproductive rights and justice; an Indian Tribe, Tribal organization, or urban Indian organization; and a consortium of entities described in any of subparagraphs
(A)through (E). To be eligible to receive a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement under this section, an eligible entity or consortium of entities shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require, that includes a description of the eligible entity’s or entities’ expertise in providing education programs including evidence that such entity has— knowledge of best practices in providing reproductive health care, including preventive health care services, to individuals with disabilities; experience working with individuals with disabilities and their families; and demonstrated expertise of developing materials in culturally and linguistically accessible formats including plain language. An eligible entity or eligible consortium receiving an award under this section may, for contracting purposes, make subawards to individuals or entities with expertise in reproductive health care and serving individuals with disabilities. An entity or entities’ shall use amounts received under subsection
(a)to— carry out evidence-based or evidence-informed sexual and reproductive health education programs for individuals with disabilities, including youth, in culturally and linguistically accessible formats; develop sexual and reproductive health education programs in culturally and linguistically accessible formats to be used in carrying out paragraph (1); provide education to individuals with disabilities, including youth, concerning abortion care options and their sexual, reproductive, and perinatal health care needs; provide education to individuals with disabilities, including youth, concerning their rights under relevant Federal and State law; provide access to disability affirmative and supportive clinical resources that are accessible to individuals with disabilities; build the entity’s or entities’ capacity and enhance their leadership of the entity or entities within the community to promote community engagement in, and advancement of, evidence-based or evidence-informed sexual and reproductive health care education in easily accessible formats; and support dissemination of newly developed sexual and reproductive health care education programs as described in paragraph
(2)throughout the State, territorial, and Tribal communities. An entity that receives an award under this section shall, at the end of the award period, carry out an evaluation of success of the entity in achieving the goals of the program for which the award was made. Not later than 180 days after the end of the award period, an entity that receives an award under this section shall submit to the Secretary a report on the results of the evaluation conducted under paragraph (1). The Secretary shall annually compile the reports submitted under paragraph
(2)and submit such compilation to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives. Such compilations shall be posted on the internet website of the Department of Health and Human Services in an accessible format. In this section: The terms disability and disabilities have the meaning given such terms for purposes of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The terms Indian Tribe and Tribal organization have the meaning given such terms in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. The term urban Indian organization has the meaning given such term in section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028.