HB 786 Virginia House of Delegates · 2022 Regular Session

Instructional material and related academic activities; Board of Education to establish policy.

Summary
Board of Education; policy on certain instructionalmaterial and related academic activities; annual parental notification;replacement or alternative material and activities; local compliance.Requires the Board of Education to establish, and each local schoolboard to comply with, a policy to require each public elementaryor secondary school to (i) annually notify the parent of any student enrolled in a class or course in which the instructional materialor related academic activities includes or may include sexually explicitcontent, as defined in the bill, or content that depicts sexual misconduct,as defined in the bill; (ii) permit the parent of any student toreview instructional material that includes sexually explicit contentor content that depicts sexual misconduct, upon request; and (iii)provide, as a replacement or an alternative to instructional materialand related academic activities that include sexually explicit contentor content that depicts sexual misconduct, instructional materialand related academic activities that do not include sexually explicit content or content that depicts sexual misconduct to any studentwhose parent so requests.
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Jan 2022
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Introduced Jan 11, 2022 Last action Feb 15, 2022
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Jan 11, 2022
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Referred to Committee on Education
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Jan 11, 2022
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Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104073D
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