Bill Text: TX HB2243 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a workgroup to examine the implementation of dating violence awareness and education programs in public schools.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to Public Education [HB2243 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2243-Introduced.html
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| By: Dukes | H.B. No. 2243 | |
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| relating to the establishment of a workgroup to examine the | ||
| implementation of dating violence awareness and education programs | ||
| in public schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.0831, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (f), (g), (h), and (i) to read as follows: | ||
| (f) The commissioner shall establish a workgroup to make | ||
| recommendations related to ensuring and improving implementation | ||
| of the dating violence policy required under Subsection (a) in | ||
| public schools. The workgroup must be composed of: | ||
| (1) one member from the agency; | ||
| (2) one member from the Texas State Teachers | ||
| Association; | ||
| (3) one member from the Texas American Federation of | ||
| Teachers; | ||
| (4) one member from the Association of Texas | ||
| Professional Educators; | ||
| (5) one member from the Texas Association of School | ||
| Boards; | ||
| (6) one member from the Texas Association of School | ||
| Administrators; | ||
| (7) one member from the Texas School Counselor | ||
| Association; | ||
| (8) one member from the Texas Association of Secondary | ||
| School Principals; | ||
| (9) one member from the Texas School Nurses | ||
| Organization; | ||
| (10) one member from the Texas School Safety Center; | ||
| (11) one member from the Texas High School Coaches | ||
| Association; | ||
| (12) three campus safety officers; | ||
| (13) four members from family violence centers, as | ||
| defined by Section 51.002, Human Resources Code, from different | ||
| geographic regions in this state, including both rural and urban | ||
| areas; | ||
| (14) one member from a statewide family violence | ||
| advocacy organization; | ||
| (15) one member from a statewide sexual assault | ||
| advocacy organization; | ||
| (16) one member from a statewide advocacy organization | ||
| that serves teenage victims of dating violence; | ||
| (17) one member from the statewide intake division or | ||
| the investigation division of the Department of Family and | ||
| Protective Services; | ||
| (18) one member from the Parenting and Paternity | ||
| Awareness program in the office of the attorney general; | ||
| (19) one member from the family violence program in | ||
| the Health and Human Services Commission; | ||
| (20) two members from the Texas Juvenile Justice | ||
| Department, including one member who has experience with juvenile | ||
| probation; and | ||
| (21) one member who is affiliated with a university in | ||
| the state and has expertise in research on dating violence. | ||
| (g) The workgroup shall: | ||
| (1) recommend specific methods of implementing | ||
| training for educators and school administrators under the policy | ||
| required by Subsection (a); | ||
| (2) recommend specific methods of implementing | ||
| awareness education for parents and students under the policy | ||
| required by Subsection (a); | ||
| (3) recommend improvements to the policy required by | ||
| Subsection (a); | ||
| (4) propose amendments to Section 11.252 that would | ||
| incorporate into district-level planning and decision-making the | ||
| policy required by Subsection (a); | ||
| (5) examine the intersection between juvenile justice | ||
| and youth dating violence; | ||
| (6) develop strategies for enhancing the safety and | ||
| security of school campuses in the context of dating violence; and | ||
| (7) develop specific approaches for the | ||
| implementation of dating violence training and awareness education | ||
| in middle schools. | ||
| (h) The workgroup established under Subsection (f) shall | ||
| report its recommendations to the legislature not later than | ||
| September 1, 2018. | ||
| (i) This subsection and Subsections (f), (g), and (h) expire | ||
| September 1, 2018. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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. | ||
