Bill Text: TX HB1869 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to training for employees of school districts and open-enrollment charter schools on the prevention of sexual abuse and other maltreatment of certain children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-21 - Referred directly to s/c on Educator Quality by chair [HB1869 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1869-Introduced.html
  85R10916 MK-F
 
  By: González of El Paso H.B. No. 1869
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to training for employees of school districts and
  open-enrollment charter schools on the prevention of sexual abuse
  and other maltreatment of certain children.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 38.0041(c), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (c)  The methods under Subsection (b)(1) for increasing
  awareness of issues regarding sexual abuse and other maltreatment
  of children must include training, as provided by this subsection,
  concerning prevention techniques for and recognition of sexual
  abuse and all other maltreatment of children, including the sexual
  abuse and other maltreatment of children with significant cognitive
  disabilities in both educational and noneducational settings.  The
  training:
               (1)  must be provided, as part of a new employee
  orientation, to all new school district and open-enrollment charter
  school employees and to existing district and open-enrollment
  charter school employees on a schedule adopted by the agency by rule
  until all district and open-enrollment charter school employees
  have taken the training; and
               (2)  must include training concerning:
                     (A)  factors indicating a child is at risk for
  sexual abuse or other maltreatment;
                     (B)  likely warning signs indicating a child may
  be a victim of sexual abuse or other maltreatment;
                     (C)  internal procedures for seeking assistance
  for a child who is at risk for sexual abuse or other maltreatment,
  including referral to a school counselor, a social worker, or
  another mental health professional;
                     (D)  techniques for reducing a child's risk of
  sexual abuse or other maltreatment; and
                     (E)  community organizations that have relevant
  existing research-based programs that are able to provide training
  or other education for school district or open-enrollment charter
  school staff members, students, and parents.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
  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, 2017.
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