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GA HB941
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/14/2018
Primary Sponsor
Debra Bazemore
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AI Summary
- Amends Georgia's sex education and AIDS prevention curriculum to allow instruction for female students on best practices for and risks associated with tampon use, including information about toxic shock syndrome (TSS)
- Adds toxic shock syndrome (TSS) as a topic that may be covered in the State Board of Education's minimum course of study in sex education and comprehensive health education
- Specifies required instructional content including TSS warning signs (sudden fever, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, sunburn-like rash), the estimated TSS incidence rate of 1 to 17 per 100,000 menstruating women and girls per year, and the higher risk for women under 30 and teenage girls
- Encourages licensed physicians and nurses—including those in hospitals and schools—who provide a tampon to a female patient to verbally recite and provide in written form information about TSS risks, warning signs, and best practices for tampon use
- Recommends advising patients and students to use minimum-absorbency tampons, alternate tampon use with sanitary napkins, and seek immediate medical attention if TSS symptoms appear
Legislative Description
Education; health; provide for instruction
Last Action
House Second Readers
2/20/2018
Full Bill Text
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