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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Family life education; changes to curriculum guidelines and curricula."
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description: "Makes changes to family life education curriculum guidelines and curricula, including requiring family life education curriculum guidelines to include instruction as appropriate for the age of the student in the value of family relationships and permitting the age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of sexual violence that are required to be incorporated into any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to include instruction that increases student awareness of the fact that consent is required before sexual activity."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2017"
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identifier: "SB 1475"
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citation: "Virginia SB 1475 (2017)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Education"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer L. McClellan"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 23
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2017-01-17"
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last_action: "2017-03-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d55f574e-61da-4d36-bf58-eddfcb8f411c"
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source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1475"
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source_hash: "d651d5c9ba14516124b791de328d46d52251fb107ffc12f22da1061530f1a3ce"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia SB 1475 (2017) — Family life education; changes to curriculum guidelines and curricula.
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Makes changes to family life education curriculum guidelines and curricula, including requiring family life education curriculum guidelines to include instruction as appropriate for the age of the student in the value of family relationships and permitting the age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of sexual violence that are required to be incorporated into any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to include instruction that increases student awareness of the fact that consent is required before sexual activity.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0692)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0692)
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2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1475ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1475ER)
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3. **Senate: Presented and ordered printed 17103707D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1475)
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4. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 17103707D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1475E)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Education with amendments — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Reported from Education and Health with amendments — **14–1** (pass) · legislature
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
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- Read third time and passed Senate — **37–2** (pass) · legislature
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- Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
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- House amendments agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
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## Sponsors
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- Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
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- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 17103707D `introduction`
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- **2017-01-17** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
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- **2017-01-25** Assigned Education sub: Public Education `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-06** Reading of amendments waived
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- **2017-02-06** Committee amendments agreed to
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- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1475E
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- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17103707D-E
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- **2017-02-09** Placed on Calendar
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- **2017-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-09** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-10** Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-21** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2017-02-22** Committee amendments agreed to
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- **2017-02-22** Engrossed by House as amended
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- **2017-02-22** Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
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- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
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- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
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- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
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- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
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- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 692 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d55f574e-61da-4d36-bf58-eddfcb8f411c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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