SB1207 • 2025

Relating to instruction on adoption in the parenting and paternity awareness program in public schools.

Education

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Sponsor: King
Last action: 2025-06-20
Official status: 06/20/2025 E Effective immediately
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to instruction on adoption in the parenting and paternity awareness program in public schools.

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Relating to instruction on adoption in the parenting and paternity awareness program in public schools.

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Bill History

2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online
Signed by the Governor
2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online
Effective immediately
2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online
Signed in the House
2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online
Sent to the Governor
2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online
Signed in the Senate
2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online
House passage reported
2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online
Reported enrolled
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Passed to 3rd reading
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#3832
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online
Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Vote reconsidered in committee
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Public Education
2025-04-02 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the Senate
2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online
Three day rule suspended
2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-04-01 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on intent calendar
2025-03-27 Texas Legislature Online
Co-author authorized
2025-03-26 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendments
2025-03-26 Texas Legislature Online
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
2025-03-26 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-03-25 Texas Legislature Online
Vote taken in committee
2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken in committee
2025-03-18 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online
Co-author authorized
2025-02-28 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-02-28 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Education K-16
2025-02-10 Texas Legislature Online
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
2025-02-10 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to instruction on adoption in the parenting and paternity awareness program in public schools.

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89(R) SB 1207 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 1207

AN ACT

relating to instruction on adoption in the parenting and paternity

awareness program in public schools.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Sections 28.002(p) and (p-2), Education Code,

are amended to read as follows:

(p) The State Board of Education, in conjunction with the

office of the attorney general, shall develop a parenting and

paternity awareness program that a school district shall use in the

district's high school health curriculum. A school district may

use the program developed under this subsection in the district's

middle or junior high school curriculum. At the discretion of the

district, a teacher may modify the suggested sequence and pace of

the program at any grade level. The program must:

(1) address parenting skills and responsibilities,

including child support and other legal rights and responsibilities

that come with parenthood;

(2)
include information related to adoption,

including information about:

(A)

the differences between private adoption and

foster care;

(B)

the process for adopting a child privately or

through the state foster care system; and

(C)

adoption as an alternative to becoming a

parent and the process for placing a child for adoption;

(3)
address relationship skills, including money

management, communication skills, and marriage preparation; and

(4)
[
(3)
] in district middle, junior high, or high

schools that do not have a family violence prevention program,

address skills relating to the prevention of family violence.

(p-2) A school district may develop or adopt research-based

programs and curriculum materials for use in conjunction with the

program developed under Subsection (p). The programs and

curriculum materials may provide instruction in:

(1) child development;

(2) parenting skills, including child abuse and

neglect prevention; [
and
]

(3)
the information regarding adoption described by

Subsection (p)(2); and

(4)
assertiveness skills to prevent teenage

pregnancy, abusive relationships, and family violence.

SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026

school year.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1207 passed the Senate on

April 1, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1207 passed the House on

May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 8, two

present not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor