This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format.
Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date].
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 IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Requires the Ensuring Success in School Task Force, created to address the educational and related needs of elementary and secondary education students who are parents, expectant parents, or victims of domestic or sexual violence to ensure their ability to stay in school, stay safe while in school, and successfully complete their education, to submit a report to the General Assembly by December 2009 (initial deadline for report was January 2009). http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0605lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 605
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Removes the requirement that local school administrative units (LEAs) provide only abstinence until marriage education and requires LEAs to provide reproductive health and safety education in grades seven through nine; requires such education to include instruction on sexually transmitted diseases, contraceptive methods, and sexual assault and abuse; requires LEAs to provide a comprehensive school health education program that meets all the requirements of this subsection and all the objectives established by the State Board.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H88v8.pdf
Title: H.B. 88
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Section 17: Directs the commissioner, in reviewing a funding application for an extended year program, to give priority to districts with high concentrations of educationally disadvantaged students.
Section 18: Brings provisions related to flexible school day program applications in line with provisions outlined in 2009 H.B. 1297 (http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB01297F.pdf)
Section 19: Directs the commissioner of education to distribute funds for life skills programs for student parents. Directs the commissioner to give priority to applicant districts that received funds for such a program the preceding year, and then to districts with the highest concentration of students who are pregant or parents. Specifies that a life skills programs for student parents is required only in districts that receive a state grant for this purpose and any other funds available for the program. Pages 13-16 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 17-19
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Continues the task force to study and report on the status of failing schools and school districts, effectiveness measures for improvement of those schools and school districts, and enhancement of accountability and sanctions; creates the teen pregnancy task force to study and make recommendation to the legislature on the coordination of services to reduce teen pregnancy and provide prenatal and postnatal training to expectant teen parents; establishes the sesquicentennial of the civil war commission.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/SB/2200-2299/SB2288SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2288
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Amends the Human Services Code to requires a local substance abuse authority to ensure that all substance abuse treatment programs that receive public funds provide priority for admission to a pregnant minor. Requires a local substance abuse authority to provide a comprehensive referral for interim services to a pregnant minor who cannot be admitted for substance abuse treatment within 24 hours of the request for admission. Provides that, if a substance abuse treatment program is not able to accept and admit a pregnant minor within 48 hours of the time that request for admission is made, the local substance abuse authority must contact the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, which must assist in providing services to the pregnant minor.
http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/hbillenr/hb0316.pdf
Title: H.B. 316
Source: le.utah.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Requires the state board of education to convene an Ensuring Success in School Task Force to develop policies and procedures for addressing the educational and related needs of youth who are parents, expectant parents, or victims of domestic or sexual violence to ensure their ability to stay in school, and successfully complete their education. Directs the task force to conduct a thorough examination of the barriers to school attendance, safety, and completion for children and youth who are parents, expectant parents, or victims of domestic or sexual violence, and to conduct a discovery process that includes relevant research and identifies effective policies and programs within and outside the state.
Also directs the task force, by January 1, 2009, to submit ot the general assembly a report including the task force's findings, recommendations and implementation plan. Directs the task force to recommend new legislation or proposed rules developed by the task force.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB1330lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 1330
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Chapter No. 822: Creates the Pregnant Women Support Act. Provisions include several related to education: Providing support services for students of institutions of higher education; providing funds to allow early childhood education programs to work with pregnant or parenting teens to complete high school and provide job training education; or providing for teenage or first time mothers education on the health needs of their infants through free home visits by registered nurses.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB3183ER
Title: H.B. 3183, S.B. 1088
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Extends to 2007-2008 provisions related to No Child Left Behind requirements, including commissioner determinations whether schools and districts are meeting state standards annually and state board authority to impose on schools and school districts consequences allowed in state law and required by the Act within the time frame required in the Act and education of homeless students.
Directs the commissioner of education and the secretary of human services to develop and analyze options for payment of education costs for a pregnant or parenting pupil attending an approved public school in Vermont or an adjacent state, an approved independent school in Vermont, or other educational program, other than a 24-hour residential facility, approved by the state board of education. Directs districts to pay between 75-85% of the base education payment for the year of attendance for a pregnant or parenting pupil enrolled in the district, attending a teen parent education program recognized by the department for children and families, and taking academic courses at the teen parent education program which are the substantial equivalent of the courses required by the district to obtain a high school diploma. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2006/acts/ACT182.HTM
Title: H.B. 867 - Section 13-15
Source: www.leg.state.vt.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Concerns the continuation of the statewide program for teen pregnancy and dropout prevention; changes the required report date for the statewide program for teen pregnancy and dropout prevention; extends the repeal date for the program.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/40136B02668FA1D287257115005DF692?open&file=1351_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1351
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Creates the Teen Parents in Foster Care Act. Provides ways in which families of dependent minor parents may be preserved, by assisting such parents in raising their children, and participating in school and extracurricular activities. Encourages the state and local child welfare agencies to collect data on the number of minors in foster care who give birth and the number of minor parents who remain in placement with their minor children, and to collect information to be used to develop a more cost-effective infant supplemental payment rate structure to more adequately reimburse caregivers.
Requires child welfare agencies, to the greatest extent possible, to identify and utilize whole family placements and other placement models that provide supportive family focused care for dependent teens and their children. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1151-1200/sb_1178_bill_20040823_enrolled.html
Title: S.B. 1178
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Extends repealer to December 31, 2005 on Mississippi Reducing Out of Wedlock Pregnancies Incentive Grant Fund that provides funds to counties for achieving reductions in out-of-wedlock births without increasing the number of abortions.http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0774SG.htm
Title: H.B. 774
Source:
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2000 | P-12 | Relates to existing law which states the intent of the Legislature to establish a comprehensive, continuous, community-linked, and school-based program, to be known as the Cal-SAFE Program, that focuses on youth development and dropout prevention for pregnant and parenting pupils and on child care and development services for their children.
Title: S.B. 541
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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