By Ms. Balser of Newton, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1172) of Ruth B. Balser and others for legislation to prohibit public agencies from applying for federal grants for abstinence education.  Higher Education.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Ruth B. Balser

Pamela P. Resor

Ellen Story

Douglas W. Petersen

Edward M. Augustus, Jr.

Jennifer L. Flanagan

Martha M. Walz

Susan C. Fargo

Pam Richardson

Alice K. Wolf

Mark V. Falzone

Stephen Kulik

Denise Provost

John D. Keenan

James E. Timilty

William N. Brownsberger

John W. Scibak

Louis L. Kafka

Sarah K. Peake

Kay Khan

Alice Hanlon Peisch

Barbara A. L'Italien

Theodore C. Speliotis

Peter V. Kocot

Linda Dorcena Forry

Carl M. Sciortino, Jr.

Steven J. D'Amico

Karen E. Spilka

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act relative to health education.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1.  Subsection (a) of section 6B of chapter 29 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the first paragraph the following  paragraph: -

Notwithstanding the provision of any general or special law to the contrary, no state agency or political subdivision of the commonwealth shall apply for any federal grant for abstinence education, so called, under section 501 of Title V of the Social Security Act, Title 42, United States Code, or under any other federal grant program for abstinence education.