House Bill 5336 Summary

• Amends Michigan's sex education curriculum requirements to mandate instruction on sexual harassment and sexual violence, including prevention strategies, reporting procedures, and resources for victims.

• Requires sex education materials to be medically accurate and include instruction on affirmative consent standards, defining consent as affirmative, conscious, and ongoing, and clarifying that silence or lack of resistance does not constitute consent.

• Maintains existing requirements that sex education emphasize abstinence as the only 100% effective protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, while permitting instruction on behavioral risk reduction strategies.

• Adds mandatory curriculum components including information on healthy dating relationships, boundary-setting, criminal penalties for sexual contact with individuals under 16 and sex offender registry requirements, and adoption and safe delivery law resources.

• Takes effect 90 days after enactment.