Bill Status
Comprehensive Family Life and Sexuality Education Bill
Senate File 878
Introduced to the Senate on February 10, 2005. Refererred to Senate Education Committee. Bill is expected to receive a hearing soon.
- Health and Family Security committee recommended S.F. 581 to pass as amended and referred it to the Education Committee.
- The Senate Education committee heard this bill on March 31, 2005. Testimony in support of this bill was provided by MOAPPP, a parent from Edina, and a teen from St. Paul's Westside. Bill author, Senator Sandy Pappas, amended and changed SF 878 to reflect the language of the "shadow" bill, SF 1262 authored by Senator Bob Kierlin. The Education committee did not vote on the bill, but laid the bill over for consideration of inclusion in the Education Omnibus bill.
- On April 12th Senator Steve Kelley complete the Senate Education Omnibus Bill, which included the provisions of SF 878. On April 14th it was heard and re-referred to Education Finance.
- On Thursday, May 5th, senate education omnibus bill SF 2267, which contains the Comprehensive Family Life and Sexuality Education language, passed the senate unanimously.
An amendment was offered to the Comprehensive Sex Education portion of SF 2267, which would have mandated that every school district "obtain prior written informed consent from a student's parent or guardian before the student attends all or any part of a comprehensive family life and sexuality education program", and inform parents and guardians how they may inspect all materials and programs. This is known as an "opt-in" provision and is usually an additional fiscal and time burden on school districts.
The amendment was voted down 35-30, with Senator Kierlin, one of the chief authors, joining most of the DFL caucus in voting against the amendment. SF 2267 now passes along to the conference committee. - The Comprehensive Family Life and Sexuality Education bill was discussed in Education Conference Committee on June 13. No vote was taken, and it was laid over for consideration.
- Comprehensive Family Life and Sexuality Education bill was discussed again on July 11, 2005, but was dropped from the budget bill due to lack of support from Conference Committee members.
House File 1301
Introduced to the House on February 24, 2005. Referred to House Education Policy and Reform Committee. Bill is not expected to receive a hearing.
- Representatives Jeanne Poppe and Phyllis Kahn added as authors.
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