By:  Cuellar, R.                                       H.B. No. 805
       73R4073 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to required instruction of public school students in
    1-3  family life.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.101, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
    1-7        (j)  The Central Education Agency shall develop a family life
    1-8  education program designed to discourage teenage pregnancy and to
    1-9  teach males and females to assume responsibility for avoiding
   1-10  pregnancy.  The program shall include course material designed to
   1-11  be appropriate for and designated to be taught to students at
   1-12  specific grade levels, beginning at grade two.  Each school
   1-13  district shall offer instruction in the program as provided by
   1-14  board rule.  The district shall provide information to parents and
   1-15  guardians of students in the district concerning the content of the
   1-16  program.  A student may receive instruction in the program only if
   1-17  the student's parent or guardian gives written permission.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Not later than June 1, 1994, the Central
   1-19  Education Agency shall complete development of a program of family
   1-20  life education and the State Board of Education shall adopt rules
   1-21  for implementation of the program, as provided by Section
   1-22  21.101(j), Education Code, as added by this Act.  Beginning with
   1-23  the 1994-1995 school year, each school district shall offer
   1-24  instruction in the program.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.