Bill Text: TX HB272 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of education and training regarding human trafficking in the curriculum of commercial driver's license training programs offered by public junior colleges and career schools and colleges.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB272 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB272-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Thompson of Harris | H.B. No. 272 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 272: | |||
By: Thompson of Harris | C.S.H.B. No. 272 |
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relating to the inclusion of education and training regarding human | ||
trafficking in the curriculum of commercial driver's license | ||
training programs offered by public junior colleges and career | ||
schools and colleges. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 130, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 130.0105 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 130.0105. COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE TRAINING | ||
PROGRAM; CERTAIN CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS. (a) The Texas Higher | ||
Education Coordinating Board by rule shall require each public | ||
junior college offering a commercial driver's license training | ||
program to include as a part of that program education and training | ||
on the recognition and prevention of human trafficking. | ||
(b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in | ||
collaboration with the office of the attorney general, shall | ||
establish the content of the education and training required by | ||
this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 132, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 132.006 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 132.006. COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSE TRAINING | ||
PROGRAM; CERTAIN CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS. (a) The commission by | ||
rule shall require each career school or college offering a | ||
commercial driver's license training program to include as a part | ||
of that program education and training on the recognition and | ||
prevention of human trafficking. | ||
(b) The commission, in collaboration with the office of the | ||
attorney general, shall establish the content of the education and | ||
training required by this section. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than December 1, 2017, the Texas | ||
Higher Education Coordinating Board shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
implement Section 130.0105, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
(b) Not later than December 1, 2017, the Texas Workforce | ||
Commission shall adopt rules necessary to implement Section | ||
132.006, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
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, 2017. |