83S20094 MEW-F
	By: Dukes	H.B. No. 48

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to health education curriculum and instruction in public
	schools to reduce the demand for abortion.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that:
	(1)  Texas led the nation in 2010 in the rate of teenage
	girls who had second children, according to the Centers for Disease
	Control and Prevention;
	(2)  approximately 22 percent of births in Texas and
	18.3 percent of births in the United States by girls age 15 to 19
	were repeat births in 2010, compared to 19.5 percent in the United
	States in 2007;
	(3)  an estimated 80 percent of teen births are
	unintended and cost American taxpayers approximately $11 billion a
	year and cost Texas taxpayers $1.2 billion in 2008, according to the
	National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy;
	(4)  the only certain way to avoid the termination of an
	unwanted pregnancy is to prevent the unwanted pregnancy;
	(5)  the state has a compelling state interest in
	ensuring that there is appropriate knowledge of how a pregnancy
	occurs and how a pregnancy can be avoided; and
	(6)  according to the Centers for Disease Control and
	Prevention, effective strategies to reduce teen pregnancy include
	evidence-based sex education that provides accurate information
	and supports the needs of teens throughout their development.
	SECTION 2.  Section 28.004, Education Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (o) to read as
	follows:
	(e)  Any course materials and instruction relating to human
	sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, or human
	immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome
	shall be selected by the board of trustees with the advice of the
	local school health advisory council and must:
	(1)  be evidence-based;
	(2)  present abstinence from sexual activity as the
	preferred choice of behavior in relationship to all sexual activity
	for unmarried persons of school age;
	(3) [(2)]  devote more attention to abstinence from
	sexual activity than to any other behavior;
	(4) [(3)]  emphasize that abstinence from sexual
	activity, if used consistently and correctly, is the only method
	that is 100 percent effective in preventing pregnancy, sexually
	transmitted diseases, infection with human immunodeficiency virus,
	[or] acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and the emotional trauma
	associated with adolescent sexual activity;
	(5) [(4)]  direct adolescents to a standard of behavior
	in which abstinence from sexual activity before marriage is the
	most effective way to prevent pregnancy, sexually transmitted
	diseases, [and] infection with human immunodeficiency virus, and
	[or] acquired immune deficiency syndrome; and
	(6) [(5)]  teach contraception and condom use in terms
	of human use reality rates instead of theoretical laboratory rates,
	if instruction on contraception and condoms is included in
	curriculum content.
	(o)  In this section, "evidence-based" means information
	verified or supported by research that is:
	(1)  conducted in compliance with accepted scientific
	methods;
	(2)  published in peer-reviewed journals, if
	appropriate;
	(3)  recognized as medically accurate, objective, and
	complete by mainstream professional organizations and agencies
	with expertise in the relevant field, including the federal Centers
	for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Department
	of Health and Human Services; and
	(4)  proven through rigorous, scientific evaluation to
	achieve positive outcomes on measures of sexual risk behavior or
	its health consequences.
	SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
	school year.
	SECTION 4.  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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
	legislative session.