By: Chisum H.B. No. 938 73R3142 CAE-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to course materials and instruction in human sexuality. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 21.104 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 21.104. HUMAN SEXUALITY INSTRUCTION. Any course 1-7 materials and instruction relating to human sexuality, sexually 1-8 transmitted diseases, or human immunodeficiency virus or acquired 1-9 immune deficiency syndrome shall be selected by the local school 1-10 district and must: 1-11 (1) present abstinence from sexual activity as the 1-12 preferred choice of behavior in relationship to all sexual activity 1-13 for school-age unmarried persons; 1-14 (2) devote substantially more attention to abstinence 1-15 from sexual activity than to any other behavior; 1-16 (3) emphasize that abstinence from sexual activity is 1-17 the only method that is 100 percent effective in preventing 1-18 pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, infection with human 1-19 immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and 1-20 the emotional trauma associated with adolescent sexual activity; 1-21 (4) direct adolescents to a standard of behavior in 1-22 which abstinence from sexual activity before marriage and fidelity 1-23 in marriage is the expected standard in terms of public health and 1-24 the most effective way to prevent pregnancy, sexually transmitted 2-1 diseases, and infection with human immunodeficiency virus or 2-2 acquired immune deficiency syndrome; and 2-3 (5) teach contraception and condom use in terms of 2-4 human use reality rates instead of in theoretical laboratory rates. 2-5 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994 2-6 school year. 2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.