# Plain Language Summary: H.R. 4254

This bill would prevent the United States from giving money to international organizations that support or advocate for sexual activity involving children below the age of consent. Essentially, it's designed to cut off U.S. funding to any global group that either promotes sexual relations with minors, tries to decriminalize such activity, or argues that children can consent to sex even when laws say they cannot.

The bill targets two main categories of organizations. First, it would block funding to any international organization that supports sexual relations with minors, tries to make such activity legal, or criticizes laws that protect children. Second, it would cut funding to any group that claims children might actually be able to consent to sex in practice, even though the law says they can't, or that opposes age-of-consent laws altogether. The bill uses each country's own legal definition of the age of consent, so it's not imposing a single standard but rather respecting what each nation has decided.

In practical terms, this means U.S. taxpayer money currently going to international organizations would be redirected or withheld if those organizations are found to hold or promote these positions. The bill doesn't create new laws against child sexual abuse—those already exist. Instead, it's a funding mechanism that uses America's financial contributions as leverage to ensure international organizations align with child protection standards. Organizations receiving U.S. aid would need to ensure their policies and advocacy clearly protect minors and don't question or undermine age-of-consent laws.

To prohibit United States contributions to international organizations that advocate for sexual activity by persons who are younger than the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent.

Mast, Brian J.

This bill prohibits the United States from providing assistance to any international organization that supports, advocates for, or seeks to decriminalize sexual relations or sexual conduct by persons who are younger than the minimum age of consent, as defined by the national government of the country where such persons reside.&nbsp; Assistance is also prohibited to any entity that supports or advocates for the belief that sexual activity involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact even when it is not consensual under law.