Text of MO SB 1289 (2024)

EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted in the law. SECOND REGULAR SESSION SENATE BILL NO. 1289 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CARTER. 4831S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary AN ACT To repeal section 160.527, RSMo, relating to health and family education. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section A. Section 160.527, RSMo, is repealed, to read as 1 follows: 2 [160.527. 1. The one-half unit of credit 1 in health education required by the state board 2 of education shall be renamed "Health and Family 3 Education" for the 2024-25 school year and all 4 subsequent school years. 5 2. The state board of education shall 6 convene a work group to develop and recommend 7 academic performance standards relating to the 8 one-half unit of credit of health and family 9 education required by the board. The work group 10 shall include, but not be limited to, educators 11 providing instruction in health education and 12 family and consumer science in grades nine to 13 twelve, representatives from the department of 14 elementary and secondary education, and 15 nonprofit organizations that focus on public 16 health, parenting, and social services. The 17 work group shall develop written curriculum 18 frameworks relating to health and family 19 education with an emphasis on behavioral health 20 relating to the causes of morbidity and 21 mortality of youth, chronic disease management, 22 and parenting skills associated with optimal 23 family health over a lifetime that may be used 24 by school districts. 25 3. The state board of education shall 26 adopt and implement academic performance 27 standards relating to health and family 28 education for the 2024-25 school year and all 29 subsequent school years. 30 4. The requirements of section 160.514 31 shall not apply to this section.] 32 