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2022 SESSION
HB 1009 Sexually explicit content; DOE shall develop model policies, parental notification.
Introduced by: Tara A. Durant | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Department of Education; policy on sexually explicit content in instructional material. Requires the Department of Education to develop and each local school board to adopt model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and include information, guidance, procedures, and standards relating to (i) ensuring parental notification; (ii) directly identifying the specific instructional material and sexually explicit subjects; and (iii) permitting the parent of any student to review instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and provide, as an alternative, nonexplicit instructional material and related academic activities to any student whose parent so requests. The bill provides that the local school board model policies may be more comprehensive than the model policies developed by the Department. The bill requires the Department to develop such model policies no later than July 31, 2022, and requires each local school board to adopt policies consistent with this act no later than January 1, 2023. The bill states that the provisions of the bill shall not be construed as requiring or providing for the censoring of books in public elementary and secondary schools.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100755D pdf | impact statement
- 02/09/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106253D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/12/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100755D
- 01/12/22 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/31/22 House: Assigned Education sub: K-12
- 02/08/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/09/22 House: Reported from Education with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/09/22 House: Committee substitute printed 22106253D-H1
- 02/11/22 House: Read first time
- 02/14/22 House: Read second time
- 02/14/22 House: Committee substitute agreed to 22106253D-H1
- 02/14/22 House: Pending question ordered
- 02/14/22 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1009H1
- 02/15/22 House: Read third time and passed House (52-Y 47-N)
- 02/15/22 House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 47-N)
- 02/16/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/16/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/24/22 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N)