Reproductive Health and Instructional Materials

Plain English Breakdown

The official text contains the phrase 'open, noticed public meeting department,' where the word 'department' appears to be a drafting error or typo since it is grammatically inconsistent with the context of a school board meeting. The explanation assumes this refers only to the meeting itself.

Annual Approval for Reproductive Health Teaching Materials

This bill requires school districts to annually approve materials used to teach reproductive health and specific diseases at an open, noticed public meeting of the district school board.

What This Bill Does

• Requires annual approval by the district school board for all instructional materials on reproductive health or specified diseases.
• Includes in this requirement materials about HIV/AIDS, including its symptoms, development, and treatment.
• Mandates that these approvals happen during an open public meeting with prior notice.
• Amends section 1003.42 of the Florida Statutes to add these rules.

Who It Names or Affects

• District school boards
• Schools teaching courses on reproductive health or specified diseases

Terms To Know

Instructional materials

Items used to teach a subject in class.

Open, noticed public meeting

A gathering where the general public is allowed to attend and observe official business after receiving prior notice.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill text does not list specific consequences if a school board fails to approve materials.
• The source refers to courses 'referenced in subsection (5)' but does not define which specific courses those are within this excerpt.

Official Summary Text

Reproductive Health and Instructional Materials ; Requires materials used in instruction of reproductive health & specified diseases to be annually approved at district school board meeting.

Current Bill Text

HB 331 2026

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F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S

A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to reproductive health and disease 2
instructional materials; amending s. 1003.42, F.S.; 3
requiring materials used in the instruction of 4
reproductive health and specified diseases to be 5
annually approved at a district school board meeting; 6
providing requirements for such meeting; providing an 7
effective date. 8
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10
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Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 12
1003.42, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 13
1003.42 Required instruction.— 14
(1) 15
(b) All materials used to teach reproductive health or any 16
disease, including HIV/AIDS, its symptoms, development, and 17
treatment, as part of the courses referenced in subsection (5), 18
must be annually approved by the district school board in an 19
open, noticed public meeting department. 20
Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026. 21