Reporting and impact evaluation

(a) Grantee report to secretary For each year a grantee receives grant funds under section 4, 5, 6, or 7, the grantee shall submit to the Secretary a report that includes— (1) the use of grant funds by the grantee; (2) how the use of grant funds has increased the access of young people to sex education or sexual health services; and (3) such other information as the Secretary may require. (b) Secretary’s report to Congress Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for a period of 5 years, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to Congress a report on the activities funded under this Act. The Secretary’s report to Congress shall include— (1) a statement of how grants awarded by the Secretary meet the purpose described in section 2(a); and (2) information about— (A) the number of grantees that are receiving grant funds under sections 4, 5, 6, and 7; (B) the specific activities supported by grant funds awarded under sections 4, 5, 6, and 7; (C) the number of young people served by projects funded under sections 4, 5, and 7, in the aggregate and disaggregated and cross-tabulated by grant program, race and ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other characteristics determined by the Secretary (except that such disaggregation or cross-tabulation shall not be required in a case in which the results would reveal personally identifiable information about an individual young person); (D) the number of teachers, health educators, faculty, school administrators, and staff trained under section 6; and (E) the status of the evaluation required under subsection (c). (c) Multi-Year evaluation (1) In general Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall enter into a contract with a nonprofit organization with experience in conducting impact evaluations to conduct a multi-year evaluation on the impact of the projects funded under sections 4, 5, 6, and 7 and to report to Congress and the Secretary on the findings of such evaluation. (2) Evaluation The evaluation conducted under this subsection shall— (A) be conducted in a manner consistent with relevant, nationally recognized professional and technical evaluation standards; (B) use sound statistical methods and techniques relating to the behavioral sciences, including quasi-experimental designs, inferential statistics, and other methodologies and techniques that allow for conclusions to be reached; (C) be carried out by an independent organization that has not received a grant under section 4, 5, 6, or 7; and (D) be designed to provide information on output measures and outcome measures to be determined by the Secretary. (3) Report Not later than 6 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the organization conducting the evaluation under this subsection shall prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of Congress and the Secretary an evaluation report. Such report shall be made publicly available, including on the website of the Department of Health and Human Services.