88R14248 ANG-D
By: Guerra H.B. No. 5022
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a marketing plan for the parenting and paternity
awareness program in public schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 28.0028 to read as follows:
Sec. 28.0028. PARENTING AND PATERNITY AWARENESS PROGRAM
MARKETING PLAN. The commissioner shall develop a marketing plan
for the parenting and paternity awareness program developed by the
State Board of Education under Section 28.002(p) to ensure public
school students who are not enrolled in a health curriculum course
offered by a school district or open-enrollment charter school are
offered the program curriculum in other courses, including
mathematics, economics, psychology, or certain related elective
courses. The marketing plan must include a guide that demonstrates
the manner in which the district or school may incorporate the
program into different courses in grades 6 through 12.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
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, 2023.