Relating to the health and human growth and development instruction provided by school districts and accredited nonpublic schools

This bill relates to the health and human growth and development instruction provided by school districts and accredited nonpublic schools. The bill requires that the curriculum taught in kindergarten and grades one through six in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools include instruction in identifying parts of the body. The bill also requires that the curriculum taught in kindergarten and grades one through six in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools include age-appropriate and research-based information regarding the importance of empathy and how to establish and respect physical boundaries. The bill requires that the human growth and development curriculum taught in grades and and the health curriculum taught in grades through in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools include age-appropriate and research-based information regarding how to give proper sexual and nonsexual consent, how to recognize proper sexual and nonsexual consent, how to identify sexually predatory behavior, the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy sexual and nonsexual relationships, and how to prevent sexual and nonsexual assault. The bill defines “age-appropriate” and “research-based”.