5395-S.E AMH WALJ MORI 176

  

ESSB 5395 - H AMD TO ED COMM AMD (H-4971.4/20) 1927

By Representative Walsh

WITHDRAWN 03/04/2020

On page 2, after line 12 of the striking amendment, insert the following:

"(d) Additionally, the curriculum must teach the negative mental and physical aspects of sexual activity in teenagers as well as the prevalence of high risk behaviors across the violence-related risk behaviors, tobacco-use related risk behaviors, and alcohol or other drug use-related risk behaviors, these behaviors being highest in each of these categories of students who had had sexual contact as compared to those who were abstinent as reported in the 2015 CDC report "Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Related Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9-12." Additionally, students must be told that among sexually active students, the report found that those who were not having exclusively heterosexual sex had the highest prevalence of risk behaviors."

EFFECT:  Requires the curriculum to teach the negative mental and physical aspects of sexual activity in teenagers as well as the prevalence of high risk behaviors across the violence-related risk behaviors, tobacco-use related risk behaviors, and alcohol or other drug use-related risk behaviors, these behaviors being highest in each of these categories of students who had had sexual contact as compared to those who were abstinent as reported in the 2015 CDC report "Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Related Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9-12." Requires students to be told that among sexually active students, the report found that those who were not having exclusively heterosexual sex had the highest prevalence of risk behaviors.

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