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1	1	H.B. No. 3076
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4	4	AN ACT
5	5	relating to a parenting and paternity awareness program used in the
6	6	health curriculum for public schools.
7	7	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8	8	SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by
9	9	amending Subsection (p) and adding Subsections (p-2), (p-3), and
10	10	(p-4) to read as follows:
11	11	(p) The State Board of Education, in conjunction with the
12	12	office of the attorney general, shall develop a parenting and
13	13	paternity awareness program that a school district shall use in the
14	14	district's high school health curriculum. A school district may
15	15	use the program developed under this subsection in the district's
16	16	middle or junior high school curriculum. At the discretion of the
17	17	district, a teacher may modify the suggested sequence and pace of
18	18	the program at any grade level. The program must:
19	19	(1) address parenting skills and responsibilities,
20	20	including child support and other legal rights and responsibilities
21	21	that come with parenthood;
22	22	(2) address relationship skills, including money
23	23	management, communication skills, and marriage preparation; and
24	24	(3) in district middle, junior high, or high schools
25	25	that do not have a family violence prevention program, address
26	26	skills relating to the prevention of family violence.
27	27	(p-2) A school district may develop or adopt research-based
28	28	programs and curriculum materials for use in conjunction with the
29	29	program developed under Subsection (p). The programs and
30	30	curriculum materials may provide instruction in:
31	31	(1) child development;
32	32	(2) parenting skills, including child abuse and
33	33	neglect prevention; and
34	34	(3) assertiveness skills to prevent teenage
35	35	pregnancy, abusive relationships, and family violence.
36	36	(p-3) The agency shall evaluate programs and curriculum
37	37	materials developed under Subsection (p-2) and distribute to other
38	38	school districts information regarding those programs and
39	39	materials.
40	40	(p-4) A student under 14 years of age may not participate in
41	41	a program developed under Subsection (p) without the permission of
42	42	the student's parent or person standing in parental relation to the
43	43	student.
44	44	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2009-2010
45	45	school year.
46	46	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
47	47	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
48	48	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
49	49	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
50	50	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
51	51	______________________________ ______________________________
52	52	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
53	53	I certify that H.B. No. 3076 was passed by the House on April
54	54	29, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not
55	55	voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
56	56	H.B. No. 3076 on May 29, 2009, and requested the appointment of a
57	57	conference committee to consider the differences between the two
58	58	houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
59	59	on H.B. No. 3076 on May 31, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 103,
60	60	Nays 37, 2 present, not voting.
61	61	______________________________
62	62	Chief Clerk of the House
63	63	I certify that H.B. No. 3076 was passed by the Senate, with
64	64	amendments, on May 25, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays
65	65	4; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
66	66	committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
67	67	that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
68	68	3076 on May 31, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 4.
69	69	______________________________
70	70	Secretary of the Senate
71	71	APPROVED: __________________
72	72	Date
73	73	__________________
74	74	Governor