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MI SB0629
Bill
Status
10/12/2017
Primary Sponsor
Hoon-Yung Hopgood
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AI Summary
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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