By: Cook, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Campbell)	H.B. No. 2186
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2015;
	May 13, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Education; May 22, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0;
	May 22, 2015, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2186	By:  Campbell

	COMMITTEE VOTE
	YeaNayAbsentPNV
	TaylorofGalvestonX
	LucioX
	BettencourtX
	CampbellX
	GarciaX
	HuffinesX
	KolkhorstX
	RodríguezX
	SeligerX
	TaylorofCollinX
	WestX
	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to suicide prevention training for educators in public
	schools.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  This Act may be cited as the Jason Flatt Act in
	memory of Jonathan Childers.
	SECTION 2.  Section 21.451, Education Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (d-1) and (d-2) to
	read as follows:
	(d)  The staff development:
	(1)  may include training in:
	(A)  technology;
	(B)  conflict resolution;
	(C)  discipline strategies, including classroom
	management, district discipline policies, and the student code of
	conduct adopted under Section 37.001 and Chapter 37; and
	(D)  preventing, identifying, responding to, and
	reporting incidents of bullying; [and]
	(2)  subject to Subsection (e) and to Section 21.3541 and
	rules adopted under that section, must include training based on
	scientifically based research, as defined by Section 9101, No Child
	Left Behind Act of 2001 (20 U.S.C. Section 7801), that:
	(A)  related to instruction of students with
	disabilities; and
	(B)  is designed for educators who work primarily
	outside the area of special education; and
	(3)  must include suicide prevention training that must be
	provided:
	(A)  on an annual basis, as part of a new employee
	orientation, to all new school district and open-enrollment charter
	school educators; and
	(B)  to existing school district and open-enrollment
	charter school educators on a schedule adopted by the agency by
	rule.
	(d-1)  The suicide prevention training required by
	Subsection (d)(3) must use a best practice-based program
	recommended by the Department of State Health Services in
	coordination with the agency under Section 161.325, Health and
	Safety Code.
	(d-2)  The suicide prevention training required by
	Subsection (d)(3) may be satisfied through independent review of
	suicide prevention training material that:
	(1)  complies with the guidelines developed by the
	agency; and
	(2)  is offered online.
	SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
	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, 2015.
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