Exhibit 1--SSA-Title V-Sec 510

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT, TITLE V, SECTION 510
Separate Program For Abstinence Education
Section 510. [42 United States Code (U.S.C.) 710]
“(a) For the purpose described in subsection (b), the Secretary shall, for fiscal year 1998
and each subsequent fiscal year, allot to each State which has transmitted an application
for the fiscal year under section 505(a) an amount equal to the product of—
(1) the amount appropriated in subsection (d) for the fiscal year; and
(2) the percentage determined for the State under section 502(c)(1)(B)(ii).
(b) (1) The purpose of an allotment under subsection (a) to a State is to enable the State
to provide abstinence education, and at the option of the State, where appropriate,
mentoring, counseling, and adult supervision to promote abstinence from sexual
activity, with a focus on those groups which are most likely to bear children outof-wedlock.
(2) For purposes of this section, the term “abstinence education” means an
educational or motivational program which—
(A) has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health
gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity;
(B) teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected
standard for all school age children;
(C) teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid
out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated
health problems;
(D) teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of
marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity;
(E) teaches that sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have
harmful psychological and physical effects;
(F) teaches that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful
consequences for the child, the child’s parents, and society;
(G) teaches young people how to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and
drug use increases vulnerability to sexual advances; and
(H) teaches the importance of attaining self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual
activity.
(c) (1) Sections 503, 507, and 508 apply to allotments under subsection (a) to the same
extent and in the same manner as such sections apply to allotments under section
502(c).
(2) Sections 505 and 506 apply to allotments under subsection (a) to the extent
determined by the Secretary to be appropriate.
(d) For the purpose of allotments under subsection (a), there is appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an additional $50,000,000 for each of
the fiscal years 1998 through 2002. The appropriation under the preceding sentence for a
fiscal year is made on October 1 of the fiscal year.”