Bill Title: Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that a person admitted to a developmental disability facility shall have access to sex education, related resources, and treatment planning that supports his or her right to be safe from sexual exploitation and abuse, including access reviews of whether the admitted person is capable of giving consent to sexual activity. Provides that Development of Individual Service Plans for clients receiving residential developmental disability and intellectual disability (DD/ID) services shall include an assessment of each client's need for sex education training on a case by case basis. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall approve course material in sex education. Provides that materials used in the State's public school special education programs shall be a primary source of appropriate teaching materials. Provides the criteria that must be included in the course materials and instruction in sex education. Provides that unless inconsistent with federal or State law or with court documentation that conferred guardianship, the guardian or guardians have final authority to approve or disapprove any proposed sex education plan. Provides that if the rest of the Development of Individual Service Plan planning team or the provider believe that the guardian's decision is not in the affected individual's best interests or is in any other way inappropriate, detrimental, or unfair to the affected individual, the provider has the prerogative to further pursue any point of contention, whether issues of fact or of law, through administrative or legal action.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3071 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Representative Charles Meier [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-109	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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