Bill Text: TX HB2010 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to providing workplace safety training information for use in the public school curriculum.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB2010 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2010-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to providing workplace safety training information for use in the public school curriculum.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB2010 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2010-Comm_Sub.html
By: Bonnen of Galveston | H.B. No. 2010 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Taylor of Galveston) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2017; | ||
May 10, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 22, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 8, Nays 1; May 22, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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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. | ||
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