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MI SB0629

Bill

Status

Introduced

10/12/2017

Primary Sponsor

Hoon-Yung Hopgood

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Origin

Senate

99th Legislature

AI Summary

  • Requires all public schools to teach about dangerous communicable diseases including HIV/AIDS, with instruction emphasizing abstinence as a responsible and effective prevention method, and all factual information must be medically accurate and objective.

  • Mandates that any sex education instruction provided by school districts include comprehensive sexuality education that is medically accurate and age-appropriate, with instruction stressing abstinence as a responsible method for preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

  • Requires school districts providing sex education to establish a sex education advisory board with specific membership requirements, including at least half parents of students and majority of parent members not employed by the school district, to oversee curriculum and program goals.

  • Prohibits enrollment in family planning or reproductive health classes without prior parental notification and opportunity to review materials, and allows students to be excused from such classes without penalty upon written request.

  • Specifies that sexuality education curriculum must discuss benefits of abstinence until marriage, emotional and legal consequences of sex, dangers of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, healthy dating relationships, and information about adoption and safe delivery of newborns law.

Legislative Description

Education; curriculum; age appropriate, medically accurate, and objective sexuality education; provide for. Amends secs. 1169, 1507 & 1507b of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1169 et seq.).

Education: curriculum

Last Action

Referred To Committee On Education

10/12/2017

Committee Referrals

Education10/12/2017

Full Bill Text

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