Governor McAuliffe Signs Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn's Consent Education Bill Into Law

Richmond, Va. – On Friday, June 9, Governor Terry McAuliffe signed Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn’s (D-Springfield) bill, HB 2257 at the State Capitol in Richmond.

HB 2257 builds upon Filler-Corn’s legislation from 2016 (now a law), which requires any high school family life education curriculum offered by a local school division to incorporate age-appropriate elements of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of dating violence, domestic abuse, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. This legislation codifies that the law and meaning of consent may be taught in high school family life education.

“HB 2257 has been a multi-year process for me building on my healthy relationship education bill passed and signed last year,” said Filler-Corn. “My goal for this bill, as it relates to the law and meaning of consent to be taught in FLE, has been education and prevention,” she added.

The bill will take effect July 1, 2017.