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Utah Code Title 53G. Public Education System--Local Administration § 53G-10-403. Required parental consent for sex education instruction

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) As used in this section:

(a)(i) “Sex education instruction” means any course material, unit, class, lesson, activity, or presentation that, as the focus of the discussion, provides instruction or information to a student about:

(A) sexual abstinence;

(B) human sexuality;

(C) human reproduction;

(D) reproductive anatomy;

(E) physiology;

(F) pregnancy;

(G) marriage;

(H) childbirth;

(I) parenthood;

(J) contraception;

(K) HIV/AIDS;

(L) sexually transmitted diseases; or

(M) refusal skills, as defined in Section 53G-10-402.

(ii) “Sex education instruction” does not include child sexual abuse prevention instruction described in Section 53G-9-207.

(b) “School” means the same as that term is defined in Section 53G-10-205.

(2) A school shall obtain prior written consent from a student's parent before the school may provide sex education instruction to the student.

(3) If a student's parent chooses not to have the student participate in sex education instruction, a school shall:

(a) waive the requirement for the student to participate in the sex education instruction; or

(b) provide the student with a reasonable alternative to the sex education instruction requirement.

(4) In cooperation with the student's teacher or school, a parent shall take responsibility for the parent's student's sex education instruction if a school:

(a) waives the student's sex education instruction requirement in Subsection (3)(a); or

(b) provides the student with a reasonable alternative to the sex education instruction requirement described in Subsection (3)(b).

(5) A student's academic or citizenship performance may not be penalized if the student's parent chooses not to have the student participate in sex education instruction as described in Subsection (3).

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