By:  Nelson                                            S.B. No. 996
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to course materials and instruction in human sexuality.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
    1-4  amended by adding Section 21.104 to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 21.104.  HUMAN SEXUALITY INSTRUCTION.  (a)  Any course
    1-6  materials and instruction relating to human sexuality, sexually
    1-7  transmitted diseases, or human immunodeficiency virus or acquired
    1-8  immune deficiency syndrome shall be selected by the local school
    1-9  district and must:
   1-10              (1)  present abstinence from sexual activity as the
   1-11  preferred choice of behavior in relationship to all sexual activity
   1-12  for school-age unmarried persons;
   1-13              (2)  devote substantially more attention to abstinence
   1-14  from sexual activity than to any other behavior;
   1-15              (3)  emphasize that abstinence from sexual activity is
   1-16  the only  method that is 100 percent effective in preventing
   1-17  pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, infection with human
   1-18  immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and
   1-19  the emotional trauma associated with adolescent sexual activity;
   1-20              (4)  direct adolescents to a standard of behavior in
   1-21  which abstinence from sexual activity before marriage and fidelity
   1-22  in marriage is the expected standard in terms of public health and
   1-23  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        (b)  A school district shall provide information to the
    2-6  parent of a student or person standing in parental relation to a
    2-7  student regarding the content of any instruction in human
    2-8  sexuality.  A student may receive instruction in the program only
    2-9  if the student's parent or person standing in parental relation to
   2-10  the student gives written consent for the instruction.
   2-11        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
   2-12  school year.
   2-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-19  passage, and it is so enacted.