2004 Senate Bill 943 ↩

House Roll Call 379: Passed

To reinforce the pro-abstinence messages required in public school sex education classes, and require that the majority of members on a school district's sex education advisory board must be parents who have a child in a district school, and that that a majority of those parent members not be school employees. Under current law, districts that offer sex-education classes must have an advisory board, but in many cases they are composed predominantly of school employees and non-parents. The bill also revises a provision of the law that allows parents to remove their child from of a sex education class, to allow parents to remove a child from the entire course (not just the particular class) without any loss of academic credit. Finally, the bill transfers some responsibilities related to sex education classes from the state Board of Education to the state Superintendent of Schools. See also House Bill 5478.