Mississippi House Bill 288 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Failed on January 31 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-01-31 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Amend Section 37-13-171, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Requirement And Standards Of Curriculum To Be Used In Public School Districts For The Teaching Of Sex Education; To Remove The Requirement That Such Program Be Abstinence-only Or Abstinence-plus Course Of Instruction; To Provide That The Required Policy To Be Adopted To Implement Sex Education Shall Be Comprehensive In Nature And Provide Medically Accurate, Complete, Age And Developmentally Appropriate Information; To Require Policy To Be Available By The Beginning Of The 2017-2018 School Year; To Prescribe What Elements Shall Not Be Included In The Sex Education Curriculum Adopted And Implemented By School Districts; And For Related Purposes.

Sex education curriculum; revise program to require comprehensive, medically accurate, age and developmentally appropriate material.

Rep. Alyce Clarke [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-31	House	Died In Committee
2017-01-03	House	Referred To Education;Public Health and Human Services

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2017/pdf/history/HB/HB0288.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2017/html/HB/0200-0299/HB0288IN.htm