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Committee lays over bill to require child physical- and sexual-abuse prevention curricula
Summary
Senate File 16, sponsored by Senator Mitchell, would require schools to include child physical- and sexual-abuse prevention in health curricula and to train instructors on managing disclosures; the committee laid the measure over for possible inclusion in the education-policy omnibus bill.
Senate File 16 would require Minnesota school districts to include child physical- and sexual-abuse prevention instruction in health curricula and to ensure instructors are trained to manage disclosures.
The bill's author, Senator Mitchell, described the measure as complementary to ongoing statewide health standards work and said the bill grew from constituent advocacy. A student testifier, Anurag…
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