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.