Teen Domestic Violence

For my first blog I chose a bill that is in House First Readers. HB 882 proposes that along with teaching teenagers about rape prevention and personal safety, school will teach the “Love is Not Abuse” curriculum.  Love is not abuse is a domestic violence education curriculum created in 2004 and supported by Liz Claiborne (Georgia General Assembly).The bill is an amendment to Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated that relates to the “Quality Basic Education Act”. Within the text of the bill it is referenced that as of 2009 a number of Georgia school currently offer the Love is Not Abuse Curriculum. I would guess that the year of 2009 was a significant year for domestic violence education as that was the year of the Rihanna/Chris Brown incident. This shows how a story garnered national attention and produced the proper political stream to create potential policy window  (Karger via mpalmiter powerpoint presentation).  The bill was introduced on 01/28/2014 and was read by the House on 01/31/2014. It has no votes as of right now.