Bill Text: TX HB2876 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public schools to use the wet bulb globe temperature to determine whether conditions are unsatisfactory for student outdoor activities due to severe heat.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-18 - Referred to Public Education [HB2876 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2876-Introduced.html
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By: Howard | H.B. No. 2876 |
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relating to requiring public schools to use the wet bulb globe | ||
temperature to determine whether conditions are unsatisfactory for | ||
student outdoor activities due to severe heat. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.020 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.020. USE OF WET BULB GLOBE TEMPERATURE FOR SEVERE | ||
HEAT DETERMINATIONS. (a) In this section, "wet bulb globe | ||
temperature" means a comprehensive measurement of environmental | ||
conditions that accounts for ambient temperature, relative | ||
humidity, wind, and solar radiation. | ||
(b) Each school district and open-enrollment charter school | ||
shall refer to the wet bulb globe temperature in determining | ||
satisfactory or unsatisfactory conditions for outdoor activities, | ||
including: | ||
(1) athletic activities; | ||
(2) recess; | ||
(3) extracurricular activities conducted outdoors; | ||
and | ||
(4) any other related activities. | ||
(c) This section does not: | ||
(1) waive any immunity from liability of a school | ||
district or open-enrollment charter school or of district or | ||
charter school officers or employees; or | ||
(2) create any liability for a cause of action against | ||
a school district or open-enrollment charter school or against | ||
district or charter school officers or employees. | ||
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. |