Changes to Colorado sex-ed curriculum pass in raucous late-night House hearing [View all]

A 10-hour hearing with hundreds of witnesses, mostly opposed, didn’t dissuade Democrats on a House committee Wednesday night from advancing a bill that will ban abstinence-only education and make other changes to the state’s comprehensive sex education curriculum for public schools.

House Bill 1032, sponsored by Democratic Reps. Susan Lontine of Denver and Yadira Caraveo of Thornton, was the subject of hours of testimony and passed the House Health and Insurance Committee on a party-line 7-4 vote.

The bill heads to the House Appropriations Committee because it carries a $1 million grant for schools that choose to offer a comprehensive sex education curriculum.

Under the measure, Colorado schools that teach sex education would have to provide “medically accurate information about all preventive methods to avoid unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.”

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