Bill Text: TX HB2010 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to providing workplace safety training information for use in the public school curriculum.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB2010 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2010-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2010 | ||
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| relating to providing workplace safety training information for use | ||
| in the public school curriculum. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.923 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.923. WORKPLACE SAFETY TRAINING INFORMATION. (a) | ||
| The agency shall collect and make available to a school district on | ||
| request information regarding workplace safety training that may be | ||
| included as part of the district's curriculum. | ||
| (b) A school district may develop a workplace safety program | ||
| that provides educators access to the information described by | ||
| Subsection (a) and encourages educators to include the workplace | ||
| safety training information in the curriculum of appropriate | ||
| courses provided to students enrolled in grades 7 through 12. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2010 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 3, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2010 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
