AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 10, 2024
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 8, 2024
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
95
CHAPTER 118
Statutes of 2024
[ Approved by Governor July 15, 2024. Filed with Secretary of State July 15, 2024. ]
Introduced by Assembly Member Joe Patterson
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Dixon, Flora, and Mathis)
February 15, 2024
An act to add Section 33546.2 to the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction.
Vote: majority Appropriation: no Fiscal committee: yes Local program: no
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST
Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education.
This bill would require the Instructional Quality Commission, when the health curriculum framework is next revised on or after January 1, 2025, to consider providing for inclusion, in that curriculum framework, content on sextortion, as defined.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 33546.2 is added to the Education Code, to read:
33546.2.
(a) When the health curriculum framework is next revised, on or after January 1, 2025, the Instructional Quality Commission shall consider providing for inclusion, in that curriculum framework, content on sextortion.
(b) For the purposes of this section, “sextortion” means a threat to use sexual or intimate images or videos, however obtained, to compel another person to produce sexual or intimate images or videos, engage in sexual acts, or provide anything of value.