5297-S.E AMH ROAD CORD 102

ESSB 5297 - H AMD 705

By Representative Roach

FAILED 4/11/2007

   On page 3, line 19, after "(6)" insert "(a)"

   On page 3, after line 27, insert the following:

   "(b) To facilitate the right of a parent or legal guardian to excuse his or her child from sexual health education instruction, a public school planning sexual health education instruction shall provide, at the beginning of the school year, a form that the parent or legal guardian may use to choose whether to excuse his or her child from the instruction or to approve his or her child's attendance at the instruction."

EFFECT: Requires public schools planning sexual health education instruction to provide, at the beginning of the school year, a form for parents and legal guardians to use to choose whether to excuse their child from instruction or to approve the child's attendance at the instruction.