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1998 SESSION

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HB 478 Family life education.

Introduced by: Alan A. Diamonstein | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Family life education. Revises the criteria for the Standards for Accreditation which are set forth in Standard 3 of the Standards of Quality and the statute setting out the requirements for the family life education program. The bill requires local school divisions to develop and implement family life education programs which include instruction, as appropriate for the age of the student, in family living and community relationships; the value of postponing sexual activity; human sexuality; human reproduction; and the etiology, prevention, and effects of sexually transmitted diseases. The programs are 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. All such programs are required to present sexual abstinence before marriage and fidelity within monogamous marriage as moral obligations and not matters of personal opinion or personal choice. This bill is identical to SB 206.

FULL TEXT

• 01/19/98  House: Presented & ordered printed 984386204  pdf
• 03/05/98  Senate: Committee substitute printed 986868204-S1  pdf
• 04/02/98  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB478ER)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• House amendments rejected
• Conference amendments
• Governor's recommendation
• Governor's veto explanation

HISTORY

• 01/19/98  House: Consent to introduce
• 01/19/98  House: Presented & ordered printed 984386204
• 01/19/98  House: Referred to Committee on Education
• 01/21/98  House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: 1
• 02/12/98  House: Reported from Education (13-Y 9-N)
• 02/12/98  House: Read first time
• 02/13/98  House: Passed by for the day
• 02/14/98  House: Read second time
• 02/14/98  House: Amendments # 1,2,4 & 5 by Mr. Marshall rejected
• 02/14/98  House: Amendment # 3 by Mr. Marshall rejected
• 02/14/98  House: Amendment by Mr. Wilkins rejected (42-Y 55-N)
• 02/14/98  House: VOTE: ADOPTION (42-Y 55-N)
• 02/14/98  House: Motion for pending question agreed to
• 02/14/98  House: Pending question ordered
• 02/14/98  House: Engrossed by House (59-Y 39-N)
• 02/14/98  House: VOTE: ENGROSSMENT (59-Y 39-N)
• 02/15/98  House: Motion for pending question
• 02/15/98  House: Pending question ordered
• 02/15/98  House: Read third time and passed House (60-Y 39-N)
• 02/15/98  House: VOTE: PASSAGE (60-Y 39-N)
• 02/15/98  House: Communicated to Senate
• 02/16/98  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/16/98  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 02/20/98  Senate: Assigned to Ed. & Health sub-committee: Public Education
• 03/05/98  Senate: Committee substitute printed 986868204-S1
• 03/05/98  Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with substitute (13-Y 2-N)
• 03/06/98  Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/06/98  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/09/98  Senate: Passed by for the day
• 03/10/98  Senate: Read third time
• 03/10/98  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 03/10/98  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 986868204-S1
• 03/10/98  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. 986868204-S1
• 03/10/98  Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (26-Y 13-N)
• 03/10/98  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (26-Y 13-N)
• 03/11/98  House: Placed on Calendar
• 03/12/98  House: Senate substitute rejected by House (7-Y 89-N)
• 03/12/98  House: VOTE: ADOPTION (7-Y 89-N)
• 03/12/98  Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/12/98  Senate: VOTE: INSIST & REQUEST R (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/12/98  Senate: Senate requested conference committee
• 03/12/98  House: House acceded to request
• 03/12/98  House: Conferees appointed by House
• 03/12/98  House: Delegates: Diamonstein, Van Landingham, Devolites
• 03/12/98  Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
• 03/12/98  Senate: Senators: Woods, Hawkins, Lucas
• 03/13/98  Senate: Reading of conference report waived
• 03/13/98  Senate: Passed by temporarily
• 03/13/98  Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (32-Y 7-N)
• 03/13/98  Senate: VOTE: CONF. COMMITTEE RPT R (32-Y 7-N)
• 03/13/98  Conference: Senate substitute accepted by conference committee
• 03/13/98  Conference: Amended by conference committee
• 03/13/98  House: Conference report agreed to by House (71-Y 19-N)
• 03/13/98  House: VOTE: ADOPTION (71-Y 19-N)
• 04/02/98  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB478ER)
• 04/06/98  House: Enrolled
• 04/06/98  House: Signed by Speaker
• 04/08/98  Senate: Signed by President
• 04/16/98  Governor: Vetoed by Governor
• 04/16/98  House: Governor's recommendation received by House
• 04/22/98  House: Motion to override Governor's veto rejected (55-Y 43-N)
• 04/22/98  House: VOTE: (55-Y 43-N)
• 04/22/98  House: House sustained Governor's veto