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2015 SESSION
15101527DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 22.1-207.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 22.1-207.1. Family life education.
The Board of Education shall develop by December 1, 1987,
standards of learning and curriculum guidelines for a comprehensive, sequential
family life education curriculum in grades K through 12. Such curriculum
guidelines shall include instruction as appropriate for the age of the student
in family living and community relationships; the benefits, challenges,
responsibilities, and value of marriage for men, women, children, and
communities; abstinence education; the value of postponing sexual activity; the
benefits of adoption as a positive choice in the event of an unwanted
pregnancy; human sexuality; human reproduction; dating violence, the
characteristics of abusive relationships, steps to take to avoid sexual
assault, and the availability of counseling and legal resources, and, in the
event of such sexual assault, the importance of immediate medical attention and
advice, as well as the requirements of the law; the etiology, prevention and
effects of sexually transmitted diseases; and
mental health education and awareness; and the
availability of advance directives, as set forth in the
Health Care Decisions Act (§ 54.1-2981 et seq.), related to mental health that permit an adult
declarant to appoint an agent
and authorize the
agent to seek the hospitalization and
evaluation of the declarant if the declarant
shows signs of mental illness.
All such instruction shall be designed to promote parental involvement, foster positive self concepts and provide mechanisms for coping with peer pressure and the stresses of modern living according to the students' developmental stages and abilities. The Board shall also establish requirements for appropriate training for teachers of family life education, which shall include training in instructional elements to support the various curriculum components.
For the purposes of this section, "abstinence education" means an educational or motivational component which has as its exclusive purpose teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by teenagers' abstaining from sexual activity before marriage.