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Utah State Profile

Utah’s Sex Education Snapshot The State of Sex Education Advocates in Utah have made incremental progress in advancing sex education requirements across the state over the past four years. In 2016, legislators successfully passed Senate Bill 196, sponsored by Senator…

Utah State Profile

Utah’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates in Utah have made incremental progress in advancing sex education requirements across the state over the past four years. In 2016, legislators successfully passed Senate Bill 196, sponsored by Senator Stuart Adams, which removed sex…

Florida State Profile

Florida’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have diligently worked to advance sex education in Florida over recent years, most recently introducing a series of progressive bills. These bills, which sought to require schools that provide sex education to teach comprehensive and…

Wyoming State Profile

Wyoming’s Sex Education Snapshot Because Wyoming schools are not required to provide sex education to students, school districts are left to decide what type of sex education–if any at all–they provide to youth. While some districts such as Sheridan County…

Vermont State Profile

Vermont’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates in Vermont have celebrated significant successes in advancing sex education over the past seven years, particularly after community based youth and sexual health service providers established an Inclusive Sex Ed Taskforce in 2019. Their efforts…

Wisconsin State Profile

Wisconsin Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have faced a continuously uphill battle in advancing Wisconsin sex education requirements since the state’s statute was revised in 2012 to no longer mandate instruction on human growth and development. However, significant advancements have been…

Colorado State Profile

Colorado’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have worked diligently to advance sex education in Colorado over the past seven years, most recently cumulating in the monumental passage of House Bill 1032. Sponsored by Representative Susan Lontine, House Bill 1032 requires sex…

Connecticut State Profile

Connecticut’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have worked diligently to advance sex education across Connecticut, most recently cumulating in the introduction of two bills designed to advance instruction statewide. House Bill 6192, introduced by Representative Themis Klarides, sought to require the…

West Virginia State Profile

West Virginia’s Sex Education Snapshot West Virginia advocates have taken significant steps to advance sex education in recent years. Despite repeated legislative efforts to limit access to reproductive heath care services, including abortion, and attempts to ban sex education, progress…

California State Profile

California’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have celebrated significant success in advancing sex education in California, largely due to the passage of the California Healthy Youth Act (CHYA) in 2015, along with an equivalent version for charter schools that passed in…

Rhode Island State Profile

Rhode Island’s Sex Education Snapshot In 2019, Representative Marcia Ranglin-Vassell, Representative Susan Donovan, and Representative Teresa Tanzi introduced House Bill 5046 in an effort to require students to receive instruction on safe relationship behavior and training on the prevention of…

North Dakota State Profile

North Dakota’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates in North Dakota have faced a continuous uphill battle in advancing sex education since the implementation of the 2012 abstinence-based sex education requirement. While legislators successfully passed House Bill 1237, which establishes a task…