AB 1868: Pupil instruction: sexual health education: sexually suggestive or sexually explicit materials.

Existing law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires school districts to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified. Under the act, this instruction includes, among other things, information about sexual harassment, sexual assault, adolescent relationship abuse, intimate partner violence, and human trafficking.

This bill would explicitly authorize a school district to provide optional instruction, as part of comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education, regarding the potential risks and consequences of creating and sharing sexually suggestive or sexually explicit materials through cellular telephones, social networking Internet Web sites, computer networks, or other digital media.

This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 51934 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1861 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1861 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.