2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 17 — Education
RS 17:263 — Adoption awareness; required instruction


LA Rev Stat § 17:263 What's This?

§263. Adoption awareness; required instruction

A. Adoption awareness shall be required instruction included in Health Education or any other course determined by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to be more appropriate, provided it is a course the completion of which is required pursuant to law or action of the state board for a student to graduate from public high school.

B. Adoption awareness shall be required instruction in nonpublic secondary schools in a manner that is the sole discretion of the nonpublic secondary school.

C. "Adoption awareness" as used in this Section means specific instruction on the benefits of adoption for families wishing to add a child, for potential adoptees, and for persons who are pregnant or who have a child for whom they are unable to care.

Acts 2006, No. 571, §1.

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