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FL S1936
Bill
AI Summary
- Cited as the "Florida Healthy Adolescent Act," requires Florida public schools that provide human sexuality programs to deliver comprehensive, medically accurate, factual, and developmentally age-appropriate information
- Removes existing statutory requirements that schools teach abstinence outside of marriage as the expected standard and promote the benefits of "monogamous heterosexual marriage"
- Defines "medically accurate information" as evidence-based content recognized by mainstream organizations such as the AMA, CDC, FDA, NIH, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and states that deliberately withholding health-protective information is considered medically inaccurate
- Requires schools to make the human sexuality curriculum available to parents or guardians upon request and allows students to be excused from such instruction via written parental request without facing disciplinary action or academic penalty
- Establishes a three-tier compliance complaint process allowing parents to escalate concerns from the district school superintendent to the district school board and ultimately to the Commissioner of Education, who may take corrective action upon finding substantial noncompliance
Legislative Description
Education in Public Schools Concerning Human Sexuality
Last Action
Died in Education
3/14/2022
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