State Sen. Liz Krueger voiced her support of the Healthy Teens Act, which was finally voted out of a Senate committee after the bill languished in her chamber for several years.  The legislation would create a system for providing grants to schools for the purpose of developing age appropriate, medically accurate sex education.

"Proper sex education is a necessary part of any school curriculum," Krueger said.  "We don't want our children to trade false information in their school yards and cafeterias.  They all talk about sex.  We need them to get the facts that can protect their lives from sexually transmitted disease and avoid unwanted pregnancy."

Family Planning Advocates of New York State have organized activities to promote the act, including petition signings, lobbying legislators and local events in each senator's home district.

The act has passed the State Assembly for the past four years, including in 2008, but has never reached the Senate for a vote on the bill.

Presently New York schools have no requirement to teach students any sex education and if a school implements a sex education program there is no allocated state funding.