Major Parental Rights Bill Headed to Governor’s Desk!

Promises made, promises kept, when it’s come to defending parental rights this year.  Today, the House voted 52 - 46 to approve SB 656 which ensures parents are notified about, and given the chance to review, any sexually explicit curriculum being used in the classroom.  This bill reaffirms something that we’ve always known: parents know their child best and must be given the chance to determine if curricula content is appropriate for their child.

The bill will now go to Governor Youngkin who will certainly be anxiously awaiting to sign it into law. 

SB 656, a bill sponsored by Senator Siobhan Dunnavant (R-Henrico), requires the Board of Education to establish policies for local school divisions to follow that require each public elementary or secondary school to provide parental notification and review of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and offer alternative instructional material to any student whose parent objects to the curriculum. Please take a moment to thank Senator Dunnavant at district12@senate.virginia.gov for sponsoring this bill.

We recently interviewed a couple of our favorite people - Laura Murphy, from Fairfax County, and Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family - about the issue of parental rights.  Watch this five-minute video in which Jim addressed how the parental rights movement launched here in Virginia, and aided by the work of the The Family Foundation, has “lit a fire across the United States.”  

For more information about this bill, you can read our blogs: Victory Alert: Senate Passes Critical Parental Rights Bill!, Victory Alert: Senate Bends on Parental Review and Open Schools! and Mama Bears Get Results!.