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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1724
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Kremen, Morris, Quall, Chandler, Rayburn, Springer, Edmondson, Mastin, Kessler, Finkbeiner, Grant, Dorn, Basich, Zellinsky, Ludwig, Campbell, Lemmon, Brough, Tate, Casada, Wood, Foreman, Holm, Roland, Fuhrman, Stevens, Sheahan, Schoesler, Long and Lisk)
Read first time 03/03/93.
AN ACT Relating to sexual abstinence instructional material; and creating new sections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that the rate of teenage pregnancy has reached alarming levels. During the past decade, the number of sexually active teenagers has increased by two-thirds. The legislature further finds that having a child while a teenager makes obtaining a quality education extremely difficult, and most often leads to school failure for the mother and future personal and economic hardship for both the mother and the child. Also, the lives and health of sexually active adolescents are at risk due to the increasing number of young people infected with the HIV virus, and other sexually transmitted diseases.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. The superintendent of public instruction shall publicize and make available to school districts a listing of the many instructional materials available that emphasize and encourage teenage sexual abstinence. The primary objective of publicizing these materials is to share the many materials that are available and being used in schools to help students develop the skills to resist the social and peer pressures to become sexually active.
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