(a) Nothing in this part shall prohibit an LEA from utilizing the services of a qualified healthcare professional or social worker to assist in teaching family life.(b) An LEA shall not utilize the services of any individual or organization to assist in teaching family life if that individual or organization endorses student nonabstinence as an appropriate or acceptable behavior, or if that individual or organization promotes gateway sexual activity.(c)(1) A public school or open-enrollment public charter school shall not knowingly enter into a transaction to assist in teaching family life with an individual or entity that:(A) Performs abortions;(B) Induces abortions;(C) Provides abortion referrals; or(D) Provides funding, advocacy, or other support for abortion.(2) A violation of this section is a violation of § 49-5-1004 and subjects the individual or entity in violation to discipline in accordance with that section.(3) As used in this subsection (c): (A) 'Abortion': (i) Means the act of using or prescribing an instrument, medicine, drug, device, or other substance or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the the act of using or prescribing an instrument, medicine, drug, device, or other substance or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will with reasonable likelihood cause the death of the unborn child; and(ii) Does not include an act described in subdivision (c)(3)(A)(i) if the act is performed with the intent to:(a) Save the life of the mother;(b) Save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child;(c) Remove a dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion; or(d) Remove an ectopic pregnancy;(B) 'Abortion referral' means the act of recommending a pregnant woman to a doctor, clinic, or other person or entity for the purpose of obtaining or learning about obtaining an abortion;(C) 'Affiliate' means an individual or entity that, directly or indirectly, owns, controls, is controlled by, or is under the common control of another person or entity, in whole or in part, or a subsidiary, parent, or sibling entity; and(D) 'Transaction' means a formal or informal agreement, contract, or arrangement of any kind between a public school or open-enrollment public charter school and a private rent, or sibling entity; and(D) 'Transaction' means a formal or informal agreement, contract, or arrangement of any kind between a public school or open-enrollment public charter school and a private entity, regardless of whether the private entity or the public school or open-enrollment public charter school receives anything of value in return.Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 950, s 1, eff. 6/1/2022. Acts 2012 , ch. 973, § 2.
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