Key Votes
HB 1081 - Expands Sexual Education Curriculum - Key Vote
Colorado Key Votes
Clarice Navarro-Ratzlaff voted Nay (Passage) on this legislation.
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Stages
Family
Issues
- Business and Consumers
- Education
- Marriage, Family, and Children
- Abortion and Reproductive
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Stage Details
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (20-15) - March 18, 2013 (Key vote)
Title: Expands Sexual Education Curriculum
Vote to pass a bill that establishes a comprehensive human sexuality education grant program.
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (37-28) - Feb. 21, 2013 (Key vote)
Title: Expands Sexual Education Curriculum
Vote to pass a bill that establishes a comprehensive human sexuality education grant program.
- Establishes a program to provide money through federal grants to public schools or school districts for use in the creation or implementation of a “comprehensive human sexuality education” program (Sec. 3).
- Requires “comprehensive human sexuality education” to provide medically accurate information that is evidence based and culturally sensitive on all methods to prevent unintended pregnancies, information about abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases and infections, and the link between the human papillomavirus and cancer (Sec. 3).
- Authorizes “comprehensive human sexuality education” to include (Sec. 3):
- Encouraging family communication about sexuality;
- Teaching young people how to avoid and avoid making unwanted verbal, physical, and sexual advances;
- Developing safe relationships and preventing sexual violence in dating; and
- The impact of alcohol and drug use on responsible decision-making.
- Specifies that “culturally sensitive” education includes resources and information for individuals and groups that are traditionally left out of sexual health education programs, including (Secs. 2 & 3):
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities;
- Immigrants and people of color;
- People with physical or intellectual disabilities; and
- People who have experienced sexual victimization.
- Requires school officials to receive written consent from the parent or guardian of a child before the child may be exempted from any program teaching human sexuality or reproduction (Sec. 5).
- Prohibits human sexuality programs from being taught to children in kindergarten through 3rd grade (Secs. 2 & 3).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 16, 2013
Title: Expands Sexual Education Curriculum
Sponsors
- John W. Buckner (CO - D)
- Crisanta Duran (CO - D)
- Rhonda Fields (CO - D)
- Millie Hamner (CO - D)
- Daniel Kagan (CO - D)
- Elizabeth H. 'Beth' McCann (CO - D)
- Dominick Moreno (CO - D)
- Nancy Janann Todd (CO - D)
Co-sponsors
- Morgan L. Carroll (CO - D)
- Lois Court (CO - D)
- Randy Fischer (CO - D)
- Joann Ginal (CO - D)
- Angela Giron (CO - D)
- Lucia Guzman (CO - D)
- Mary A. Hodge (CO - D)
- Evie Hudak (CO - D)
- Dickey Lee Hullinghorst (CO - D)
- Matt Jones (CO - D)
- Andrew 'Andy' Kerr (CO - D)
- Jeanne Labuda (CO - D)
- Jenise May (CO - D)
- Michael E. McLachlan (CO - D)
- Jovan Melton (CO - D)
- Linda M. Newell (CO - D)
- Jeanne Nicholson (CO - D)
- Brittany Pettersen (CO - D)
- Paul B. Rosenthal (CO - D)
- Su Ryden (CO - D)
- Joseph A. Salazar (CO - D)
- Sue Schafer (CO - D)
- Patrick 'Pat' Steadman (CO - D)
- Lois A. Tochtrop (CO - D)
- Max Tyler (CO - D)
- Jessie Ulibarri (CO - D)
- Angela Williams (CO - D)
- David L. 'Dave' Young (CO - D)
