Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and requiring each school board to adopt policies that are consistent with but may be more comprehensive than such model policies or that is in such model policies or school board policies shall be construed to permit the censoring of books in any public elementary or secondary school. This bill is identical to HB 571.

Statutes affected:
Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104437D: 22.1-16.8
Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB235ER): 22.1-16.8