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2017 SESSION
SB 1475 Family life education; changes to curriculum guidelines and curricula.
Introduced by: Jennifer L. McClellan | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Family life education; curriculum guidelines and curricula. Makes changes to family life education curriculum guidelines and curricula, including requiring family life education curriculum guidelines to include instruction as appropriate for the age of the student in the value of family relationships and permitting the age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of sexual violence that are required to be incorporated into any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to include instruction that increases student awareness of the fact that consent is required before sexual activity.
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:
Family life education; curriculum guidelines and curricula. Makes changes to family life education curriculum guidelines and curricula, including requiring family life education curriculum guidelines to include instruction as appropriate for the age of the student in the value of family relationships and permitting the age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of sexual violence that are required to be incorporated into any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to include instruction that increases student awareness of the fact that consent is required before sexual activity.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Family life education; curriculum guidelines and curricula. Makes changes to family life education curriculum guidelines and curricula, including (i) requiring family life education curriculum guidelines to include instruction as appropriate for the age of the student in the benefits, challenges, responsibilities, and value of family relationships for men, women, children, and communities; (ii) amending the definition of "abstinence education" for the purposes of such curriculum guidelines; and (iii) permitting the age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of sexual violence that are required to be incorporated into any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to include instruction that increases student awareness of the fact that consent is required before sexual activity.