HB1045: Education; require schools to give notice and receive consent prior to providing students with sexual orientation or gender identity instruction; provisions

Legislative Summary

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to elementary and secondary education, so as to require each school in this state that receives state funding for education to give notice and receive written consent prior to providing students in kindergarten through grade 12 with sexual orientation or gender identity instruction; to prohibit nurses, counselors, teachers, administrators, and other school personnel employed by schools in this state that receive state funding for education from knowingly encouraging or coercing a student under the age of 18 years to withhold from his or her parent or legal guardian that his or her perception of his or her gender is inconsistent with his or her sex or from knowingly withholding from the parent or legal guardian of a student under the age of 18 years information related to his or her perception that his or her gender is inconsistent with his or her sex; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.