Bill Text: TX HB348 | 2027-2028 | 90th Legislature Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to including fetal development instruction as part of the required health curriculum for public school students in certain grade levels.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced) 2026-11-09 - Filed [HB348 Detail]

Download: Texas-2027-HB348-Introduced.html

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90R3654 RAL-D
By: Leach H.B. No. 348

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to including fetal development instruction as part of the
required health curriculum for public school students in certain
grade levels.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (r-1) to read as follows:
(r-1) The State Board of Education shall by rule require
students in grades six through eight to receive instruction on
fetal development, the humanity of the unborn child, and the
concept that life begins at fertilization as part of the essential
knowledge and skills for the health curriculum under Subsection
(a)(2)(B). The instruction must include:
(1) information on:
(A) the human reproductive process, pregnancy,
and infertility;
(B) establishing healthy life skills; and
(C) preventing birth defects, including
information on the effect of drugs, alcohol, and environmental
hazards, including lead;
(2) a description of the growth and development of an
unborn child that occur during each trimester of pregnancy; and
(3) to the extent the videos are publicly available, a
showing of the following each year:
(A) LiveAction, Meet Baby Olivia (2025),
https://www.babyolivia.liveaction.org;
(B) St. John Paul II Life Center, A Glimpse
Inside (2025), https://www.glimpseinside.org; and (2025), https://www.glimpseinside.org; and
(C) "The Miracle of Life," NOVA (PBS Feb. 15,
1983).
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2027-2028
school year.
SECTION 3. 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, 2027.