Amendment #958 to H4000

Healthy Youth Act Data Collection

Mr. O'Day of West Boylston moves to amend line item 7010-0005 by adding the following:

";provided further, that not less than $300,000 shall be expended for data collection by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education pertaining to the guiding principles and standards of the most current Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Framework.

These funds shall be administered by the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to support each city, town, regional school district, vocational school district and charter school to file a biennial report regarding sexual health education, which shall include, but not be limited to, for each city, town, regional school district, vocational school district and charter school, by grade level:

(i) the name and a description of any sexual health education curriculum offered;

(ii) the approximate number of hours spent on sexual health education;

(iii) the number of students enrolled in sexual health education;

(iv) number of students who withdrew from sexual health education under section 32A of chapter 71; and

(v) other information as requested by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education pertaining to the guiding principles and standards of the most current Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Framework.

The report shall be filed with the board of elementary and secondary education each even-numbered year by a date and in a format to be determined by the board.

These funds shall be administered by the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to

(i) support staff within the department to collect these reports;

(ii) fund reimbursements to eligible districts for costs associated with the creation of the biennial report regarding sexual health education curriculum that meets the standards of the most current Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Framework

The commissioner shall make the data collected under this section available to the public on the department’s website and transmit the data to the department of public health within 30 days of the date established by the board for the filing of biennial reports under this section.”

Additional co-sponsor(s) added to Amendment #958 to H4000

Healthy Youth Act Data Collection