80R7145 ABC-D
 
  By: Farrar H.B. No. 3165
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to medically accurate information in the provision of
instruction or the development of material relating to human
development and human sexuality.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Chapter 163, Health and Safety Code, is amended
by adding Section 163.003 to read as follows:
       Sec. 163.003.  MEDICALLY ACCURATE INFORMATION REQUIRED.  (a)
In this section, "medically accurate" means information supported
by the weight of peer-reviewed research conducted in compliance
with accepted scientific methods and recognized as accurate and
objective by leading professional organizations and agencies with
relevant expertise in the field.
       (b)  A person who receives funding or other assistance from a
department, agency, or political subdivision of this state to
provide instruction or develop material for instruction regarding
human development or human sexuality shall provide medically
accurate information. Human development or human sexuality
instruction includes:
             (1)  sex education;
             (2)  family life education;
             (3)  abstinence-only education;
             (4)  health education; and
             (5)  character education.
       (c)  A department, agency, or political subdivision of this
state may not provide funding or other assistance for instruction
or materials for instruction regarding human development or human
sexuality unless the entity obtains assurance that the person
providing the instruction or developing the material will provide
or include only medically accurate information.
       (d)  A person who receives funding or other assistance under
Subsection (c) shall lose that funding immediately if the person
provides or includes information under this section that is not
medically accurate.
       SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.