Family life education; consent.
Summary
Requires any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the law and meaning of consent. Under current law, such elements are permissive in any high school family life education curriculum.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2019
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2019
Senate Passage
Feb 2019
Signed into Law
Mar 2019
Introduced Jan 8, 2019
Signed Mar 12, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Feb 19, 2019 · House of Delegates Jan 30, 2019
How they voted
34–0
Passed
Total votes 34
Feb 19, 2019
D
Democratic14
100% Yea
R
Republican20
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
29
Key actions
8
Committee
6
Amendments
6
Mar 12, 2019
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 372 (effective 7/1/19)
executive
Feb 20, 2019
Introduced
Senate amendments agreed to by House (91-Y 9-N)
lower
Feb 20, 2019
Introduced
Reconsideration of Senate amendments agreed to by House
lower
Feb 20, 2019
Introduced
Senate amendments agreed to by House (96-Y 2-N)
lower
Feb 19, 2019
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Feb 19, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
upper
Feb 19, 2019
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
upper
Feb 19, 2019
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (34-0)
senate
Feb 18, 2019
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 18, 2019
Upper · Passed
Committee amendments agreed to
upper
Feb 18, 2019
Introduced
Reading of amendments waived
upper
Feb 7, 2019
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Feb 6, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 5, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (88-Y 10-N)
lower
Feb 1, 2019
Lower · Passed
Passed by for the day
lower
Jan 30, 2019
House Of Delegates · Passed
House of Delegates Vote: pass (21-0)
house of delegates
Jan 18, 2019
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #1
lower
Jan 8, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 8, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19104038D
lower
1 primary · 7 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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