Bill Text: TX HB1726 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to reporting the number of incidents of bullying and cyberbullying in a school district and open-enrollment charter school through the Public Education Information Management System.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-12 - Referred to Education [HB1726 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1726-Engrossed.html
| 87R4891 TSS-D | ||
| By: Allison, Bell of Kaufman, et al. | H.B. No. 1726 | |
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| relating to reporting the number of incidents of bullying and | ||
| cyberbullying in a school district and open-enrollment charter | ||
| school through the Public Education Information Management System. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 48.009, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (b-4) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-4) The commissioner by rule shall require each school | ||
| district and open-enrollment charter school to annually report | ||
| through the Public Education Information Management System the | ||
| number of reported incidents of bullying that have occurred at each | ||
| campus. The commissioner's rules shall require a district or | ||
| school to specify the number of incidents of bullying that included | ||
| cyberbullying. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2021. | ||
