Requires that public school districts provide parents with notice of curriculum and obtain parental consent prior to providing sexual health education to students ten years of age or younger.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3773
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring parental
consent for sexual health education for certain students
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 819 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 819. Sexual health education; parental consent. 1. For the purposes
4 of this section, "sexual health education" shall mean education regard-
5 ing human development and sexuality, including but not limited to educa-
6 tion on pregnancy, contraception and sexually transmitted infections.
7 2. Any public school district providing sexual health education to
8 students ten years of age or younger shall, no later than thirty days
9 prior to the start of an academic year, provide a parent or legal guard-
10 ian of every student ten years of age or younger with written notice of
11 the curriculum of such sexual health education and a parental consent
12 form.
13 3. If such parental consent form is not signed by at least one of a
14 student's parents or a legal guardian and returned to the relevant
15 school authorities prior to the start of the academic year, such student
16 shall be excluded from any sexual health education.
17 4. The provisions of this section shall not prohibit any instruction
18 pursuant to section eight hundred three-b of this article.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to academ-
20 ic years beginning on or after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06820-01-5
