| State | Bill Description |
| Connecticut |
HB 5706 and HB 5778 Requires the State Department of Education to obtain the Safe Dates teen dating violence prevention curriculum and use it to train teachers in middle and high schools. Failed 3/23/2009. HB 6494
Requires all schools to include emotional and mental health in their
curriculum, including topics such as teen dating violence, consumer
health, physical, mental and emotional health, youth suicide
prevention, substance abuse prevention and general safety. Failed 3/23/2009. |
| Georgia | SB 217 Establishes the "Brittany Sharnay Wells Act." Strengthens current law, Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20, relating to the "Quality Basic Education Act." Provides for a curriculum on dating violence, requires the adoption of a policy against dating violence. Pending-Carryover. |
| Hawaii | HB 1672 Tasks the department of education to enact a dating violence policy and age-appropriate dating violence education to middle and high school students and dating violence prevention training to appropriate staff. Pending-Carryover. |
| Indiana | SB 396 Requires the Department of Education to develop a model policy on teen dating violence by December 1, 2010. The school curriculum on teen dating violence should include: basic principles of dating violence; warning signs of dating violence; and the school's dating violence policy. Failed-session adjourned. |
| Maryland | HB 845 Requires the State Board of Education to develop and implement in the public schools a program to educate students about dating violence; requires the program to include education on services provided to victims of dating violence; alters the definition of victim of domestic violence; requires the Governor annually to proclaim the second week in October Statewide Tween/Teen Dating Violence education and Awareness.Failed-session adjourned. |
| Massachusetts |
HB 453 States that all school districts in the Commonwealth shall implement a specific policy and discipline code to address teen dating violence in public schools. HB 455 Amends current legislation to include teen dating violence prevention in public school curriculums. |
| Montana | HB 596 Establishes the Healthy Teen Act. Among many other teen health issues, teach skills in making responsible decisions about sexuality, including how to refrain from making and how to avoid receiving unwanted verbal, physical, and sexual advances. This includes information about dating violence, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. Failed, died in committee 4/28/2009. |
| Nebraska | LB 64 Adopts the Lindsay Burke Act which passed in Rhode Island in 2007. Would require the state department of education to develop a model policy for schools to address teen dating violence through their curriculum. Indefinitely postponed. |
| New Jersey |
AB 3807 Strengthens current law; requires each school district to adopt a dating violence policy to prevent and address incidents involving dating violence. |
| New Mexico | HB 615 Requires public schools to adopt dating violence policies and to incorporate dating violence information into health education curricula in grades seven through twelve. Failed-session adjourned. |
| New York |
AB 819 Requires dating violence education and dating violence policies in school district, board of cooperative educational services and county vocational education and extension boards. SB 2537 Requires dating violence education and dating violence policies in school districts, board of cooperative educational services and county vocational education and extension boards; "dating violence" means a pattern of behavior where one person uses threats of, or actually uses, physical, sexual, verbal or emotional abuse to control his or her dating partner; requires the department, in conjunction with, to assist schools in developing a policy for dating violence incidents. |
| Ohio | HB 19 Requires school districts to adopt a dating violence policy and to include dating violence education within the health education curriculum. |
| Oklahoma |
SB 1098 As a result of state legislative findings, it requires the State Department of Education to develop a model dating violence policy and requires each district board of education to establish dating violence policies. Also requires training and creates guidelines for the training. Pending-Carryover. |
| South Carolina |
HB 3202 and SB 266 Strengthens current law on school policies by requiring department of education to develop a model dating violence policy to assist school districts in developing their own policies. The policies created are to be published in school district handbooks. The guidelines include annual dating violence training for administrators, teachers, nurses, guidance counselors, and social workers. Also requires school districts to inform parents of the policy and allows parents or legal guardians to examine all education program materials developed. The department provides final approval on all policies and establishes which policy should be taught at certain grade levels. Pending-Carryover. HB 3543 Requires the state department of education to develop a model dating violence policy to assist school districts in developing their own policies for reporting and responding to dating violence, provides what must be included in the policies, to provide reporting and publication requirements, and to require school districts to inform parents and guardians of the policy and to provide parents with a copy of the policy upon request. Pending-Carryover. |
