Tex. Health & Safety Code § 85.007 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR MINORS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department shall give priority to developing model educational materials for education programs for persons younger than 18 years of age.
(b) The materials in the education programs intended for persons younger than 18 years of age must:
(1) emphasize sexual abstinence before marriage and fidelity in marriage as the expected standard in terms of public health and the most effective ways to prevent HIV infection, sexually transmitted diseases, and unwanted pregnancies; and
(2) state that homosexual conduct is not an acceptable lifestyle and is a criminal offense under Section 21.06, Penal Code.
(c) In addition, the educational materials intended for persons younger than 18 years of age must:
(1) teach that sexual activity before marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical consequences;
(2) teach adolescents ways to recognize and respond to unwanted physical and verbal sexual advances;
(3) teach that the use of alcohol or drugs increases a person's vulnerability to unwanted sexual advances; and
(4) emphasize the importance of attaining self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 36, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1411, Sec. 24.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0268, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0269, eff. April 2, 2015.
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