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GA HB1505

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/3/2026

Primary Sponsor

Will Wade

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires all sex education and HIV prevention instruction in Georgia public schools to be "age-appropriate and medically accurate," defined as based on sound scientific evidence and established medical principles.

  • Adds instruction on "personal boundaries and responsibility in relationships" to required curriculum standards alongside existing topics like peer pressure, self-esteem, and abstinence.

  • When school districts offer both abstinence-based and comprehensive sex education courses, parents must be given written choice; students default to the abstinence-based course if parents make no selection.

  • Mandates that all sex education curricula emphasize sexual abstinence as the best and only completely reliable method for avoiding pregnancy, STIs, HIV, and other physical, mental, and emotional harm from underage sexual activity.

  • Sets implementation deadline of August 1, 2027 for the State Board of Education to prepare the minimum course of study, with local boards required to implement by July 1, 2028 or lose state funding eligibility.

Legislative Description

Quality Basic Education Act; prescribed course of study in sex education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention instruction is age appropriate and medically accurate; provide

Last Action

House Second Readers

3/6/2026

Committee Referrals

Education3/4/2026

Full Bill Text

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