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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM

     Introduced By: Representatives Roberts, Quattrocchi, and J. Brien

     Date Introduced: February 28, 2025

     Referred To: House Education

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Chapter 16-22 of the General Laws entitled "Curriculum [See Title 16

Chapter 97 - The Rhode Island Board of Education Act]" is hereby amended by adding thereto the

following section:

     16-22-34.1. Instruction in sexual education.

     Any school providing instruction in sexual education to students, prior to providing such

instruction to students, shall provide the sexual education curriculum to every parent or legal

guardian that has a child in that school, in a form comprehensible to the parent or legal guardian.

Every parent or legal guardian shall consent, in writing, to the instruction of such sexual education

curriculum provided to that parent or legal guardian for any child in which they are exercising

custodial rights.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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RELATING TO EDUCATION -- CURRICULUM

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     This act would provide that any school teaching sexual education to students shall provide

the sexual education curriculum to every parent or legal guardian with a child in that school, and

the parent or legal guardian shall consent, in writing, to the teaching of such sexual education

curriculum to their child.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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