2004 Senate Bill 943 ↩

Senate Roll Call 240: 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. 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 transfers some responsibilities related to sex education classes from the state Board of Education to the state Superintendent of Schools. See also Senate Bill 944. House Bills 5477 and 5478 are the same bills. See the April 27 Senate substitute description for more details.