By Delisi                                             H.B. No. 2797
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to abstinence education in public schools.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 28.004, Education Code, is amended by
 1-5     adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
 1-6           (j)  In addition to other provisions of this section, any
 1-7     human sexuality course materials or instruction related to
 1-8     abstinence from sexual activity must:
 1-9                 (1)  emphasize that the mutually monogamous
1-10     relationship of marriage is the expected standard for sexual
1-11     activity;
1-12                 (2)  teach that sexual activity before marriage is
1-13     likely to have harmful psychological and physical consequences;
1-14                 (3)  teach that having a child out of wedlock is likely
1-15     to result in harmful consequences for the child, the parents, and
1-16     society;
1-17                 (4)  teach adolescents ways to recognize and respond to
1-18     unwanted physical and verbal sexual advances;
1-19                 (5)  teach that alcohol and drug use increase the
1-20     vulnerability to unwanted sexual advances; and
1-21                 (6)  emphasize the importance of attaining
1-22     self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity.
1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-24     school year.
 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.