Bill Text: TX HB1342 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to child sexual abuse prevention training for public school students.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Vetoed) 2017-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB1342 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1342-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to child sexual abuse prevention training for public school students.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Vetoed) 2017-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB1342 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1342-Comm_Sub.html
By: Parker, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) | H.B. No. 1342 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; | ||
May 11, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 23, 2017, reported favorably, as amended, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 23, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 | By: Taylor of Galveston | |
Amend H.B. No. 1342 (house engrossed version) in SECTION 1 of | ||
the bill as follows: | ||
(1) In amended Section 38.004(b), Education Code (page 1, | ||
between lines 13 and 14), insert the following appropriately | ||
numbered subdivision and renumber subsequent subdivisions | ||
accordingly: | ||
(_) choose the provider and the method of delivery of | ||
the training; | ||
(2) Strike added Section 38.004(d), Education Code (page 2, | ||
lines 5 through 8), and substitute the following: | ||
(d) The agency shall compile a list of objectives that must | ||
be met by a school district's child sexual abuse prevention | ||
training required under Subsection (b). | ||
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relating to child sexual abuse prevention training for public | ||
school students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 38.004, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(b) Each school district shall provide child abuse | ||
antivictimization programs in elementary and secondary schools. | ||
The programs must include annual age-appropriate, research-based | ||
child sexual abuse prevention training designed to promote | ||
self-protection and prevent sexual abuse and trafficking of | ||
children. The district shall: | ||
(1) each year include a description of the training: | ||
(A) in an informational handbook provided to | ||
students, parents, and guardians; or | ||
(B) on the Internet website of the school | ||
district, if the district does not provide an informational | ||
handbook to students, parents, and guardians; | ||
(2) ensure that each student enrolled in the district | ||
attends the training each year; and | ||
(3) provide at least two opportunities each year for a | ||
student to attend the training required that year. | ||
(c) Not later than September 1 of each year, each school | ||
district shall submit to the agency a report on the number and | ||
percentage of students enrolled in the district who attended the | ||
child sexual abuse prevention training required by Subsection (b) | ||
during the preceding school year. | ||
(d) The agency shall compile a list of child sexual abuse | ||
prevention training programs from which a school district must | ||
choose in providing the child sexual abuse prevention training | ||
required under Subsection (b). | ||
SECTION 2. It is not the intent of the legislature that the | ||
changes in law made by this Act be interpreted as requiring the | ||
provision of human sexuality instruction. | ||
SECTION 3. A school district shall submit the initial | ||
report required by Section 38.004(c), Education Code, as added by | ||
this Act, not later than September 1, 2018. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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