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Bills from the 2023–24 session

Assembly Bill 728

Teen dating violence prevention education. (FE)

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Dec 6, 2023

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 15, 2024: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill requires the Department of Public Instruction to work with the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health Services, the Council on Domestic Abuse, and advocates from statewide organizations representing victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence, to adopt a policy governing the prevention of and appropriate responses to teen dating violence and sexual violence when pupils are at school or while pupils are under the supervision of a school authority. DPI must adopt this policy and make it available to school districts by no later than July 1, 2024.

The bill also requires DPI to incorporate a teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention curriculum into its model health problems education curriculum. Under the bill, DPI's teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention curriculum must include various topics, including skills for identifying teen dating violence, abusive behavior, physical intimidation, stalking, physical abuse, sexual violence, and cyberbullying; appropriate and safe ways for teen bystanders to intervene in teen dating violence, sexual violence, and incidents of stalking and to seek help from supportive adults on behalf of victims; the meaning of consent, how to communicate consent, the absence of consent, and how to identify consent and the absence of consent; and characteristics of healthy relationships.

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By January 1, 2025, each school board must adopt DPI's policy governing the prevention of and appropriate responses to teen dating violence and sexual violence or create its own substantially similar policy, and by July 1, 2025, each school board must adopt and incorporate DPI's teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention curriculum or create and incorporate its own substantially similar curriculum. Under the bill, a school board's policy must require a teacher to notify a pupil's parent or guardian if the teacher knows or has reason to believe the pupil was involved in an incident of teen dating violence or sexual violence that occurred at school or under the supervision of a school authority.

Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, the bill requires school boards to provide age-appropriate instruction about teen dating violence prevention to pupils at least once in grades 6 to 8 and once in grades 9 to 12. Under the bill, before the first day of the school term, school boards must provide parents and guardians a notice about instruction in teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention education planned for that school term. The notice must include 1) that the written and audiovisual educational materials used in the instruction are available for inspection and a copy of the materials is available upon request and 2) that a parent or guardian may request in writing that their child not receive the instruction.

Finally, under the bill, school boards must require school district employees who have direct contact with pupils in grades 6 to 12 to attend teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention training within six months of beginning employment and again at least once every five years.

Who's behind it

20 lawmakers are its ⁠. All 20 are Democrats.

10 more lawmakers ⁠.

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Authors (20)

Signed on in support (10)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

What happened

  1. Apr 15, 2024

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Dec 14, 2023

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  3. Dec 7, 2023

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  4. Dec 6, 2023

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.

  5. Dec 6, 2023

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Dec 6, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Emerson, Hong, C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Conley, Considine, Drake, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Stubbs, Clancy and Neubauer; cosponsored by Senators Agard, Roys, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Larson, Pfaff, Smith, Spreitzer and Taylor

  2. Dec 6, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety

  3. Dec 7, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Subeck added as a coauthor

  4. Dec 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Committee

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Public hearing

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Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

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Legislative Reference Bureau

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Official term: LRB analysis

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Author

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Official term: Fiscal estimate

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