Bill Text: TX HB2104 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring a school district to employ a social worker to assist district security personnel and oversee the district's threat assessment and safe and supportive school teams.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Youth Health & Safety, Select [HB2104 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2104-Introduced.html
88R8070 BDP-D | ||
By: Manuel | H.B. No. 2104 |
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relating to requiring a school district to employ a social worker to | ||
assist district security personnel and oversee the district's | ||
threat assessment and safe and supportive school teams. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 37.08135 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 37.08135. SOCIAL WORKER REQUIRED. The board of | ||
trustees of each school district shall employ one or more social | ||
workers licensed under Chapter 505, Occupations Code, to work with | ||
the district's peace officers, school resource officers, or other | ||
security personnel to: | ||
(1) identify and address underlying student behaviors | ||
related to social, emotional, behavioral, mental, or substance | ||
abuse issues; | ||
(2) assist with emergency situations at the district; | ||
and | ||
(3) provide wrap-around services, case management, | ||
and ongoing support to students enrolled at the district and the | ||
students' families. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 37.115(e), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(e) The superintendent of a school district shall assign to | ||
a social worker employed by the district under Section 37.08135 | ||
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teams established for the district. The superintendent may | ||
establish a committee, or assign to an existing committee | ||
established by the district, the duty to assist a social worker with | ||
oversight responsibility under this subsection. A committee [ |
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members with expertise in human resources, education, special | ||
education, counseling, behavior management, school administration, | ||
mental health and substance use, school safety and security, | ||
emergency management, and law enforcement. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2023. |