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Committee examines bill to require local jurisdictions to adopt comprehensive health education framework
Summary
HB 161 would require local school systems to adopt a comprehensive, age‑appropriate health education framework that adds health promotion, gender identity/sexual orientation content, and online safety while preserving parental opt‑out procedures for family life/human sexuality.
Delegate Vanessa Atterberry told the Ways and Means Committee the bill requires each local jurisdiction to establish a comprehensive health education framework that includes health promotion, mental and emotional health, substance use prevention, family life and human sexuality, gender identity and sexual orientation, safety and violence prevention, online safety and healthy eating.
Atterberry said the bill keeps existing opt‑out protections for the family life/human sexuality module: "if you would like to opt out of the family life or opt out of the human [sexuality]…
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