Bill Text: TX HB1218 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to course content requirements for human sexuality instruction provided by a public school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 16-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-03 - Referred to Public Education [HB1218 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1218-Introduced.html
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By: Capriglione | H.B. No. 1218 |
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relating to course content requirements for human sexuality | ||
instruction provided by a public school. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.004(e), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(e) Any course materials and instruction relating to human | ||
sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, or human | ||
immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome | ||
shall be selected by the board of trustees with the advice of the | ||
local school health advisory council and must: | ||
(1) present abstinence from sexual activity as the | ||
preferred choice of behavior in relationship to all sexual activity | ||
for unmarried persons of school age; | ||
(2) devote more attention to abstinence from sexual | ||
activity than to any other behavior; | ||
(3) emphasize that abstinence from sexual activity, if | ||
used consistently and correctly, is the only method that is 100 | ||
percent effective in preventing pregnancy, sexually transmitted | ||
diseases, infection with human immunodeficiency virus or acquired | ||
immune deficiency syndrome, and the emotional trauma associated | ||
with adolescent sexual activity; | ||
(4) direct adolescents to a standard of behavior in | ||
which abstinence from sexual activity before marriage is the most | ||
effective way to prevent pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, | ||
and infection with human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune | ||
deficiency syndrome; [ |
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(5) teach contraception and condom use in terms of | ||
human use reality rates instead of theoretical laboratory rates, if | ||
instruction on contraception and condoms is included in curriculum | ||
content; and | ||
(6) instruct that life begins at conception. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |