Bill Text: TX HB2682 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2682 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to digital citizenship instruction in public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-17 - Referred to Public Education [HB2682 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB2682-Introduced.html

	87R7157 JES-F

	By: González of El Paso	H.B. No. 2682



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to digital citizenship instruction in public schools.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 28.002(z), Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(z) The State Board of Education by rule shall require each
	school district to incorporate instruction in digital citizenship
	into the district's curriculum, including information regarding
	the potential criminal consequences of cyberbullying, and require
	students enrolled in grade level six to complete instruction in
	digital citizenship as part of the district's social studies
	curriculum. In this subsection:
	(1) "Cyberbullying" has the meaning assigned by
	Section 37.0832.
	(2) "Digital citizenship" means the standards of
	appropriate, responsible, and healthy online behavior, including:
	(A) media literacy and the ability to identify
	credible sources of information and access, analyze, evaluate,
	create, and act on all forms of digital communication;
	(B) digital ethics, etiquette, safety, security,
	and the identification of hate speech, racism, and discrimination;
	and
	(C) cyberbullying prevention and response.
	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022
	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, 2021.