Bill Text: TX HB3062 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to fentanyl prevention and drug poisoning awareness education for students enrolled in public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-19 - Filed [HB3062 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3062-Introduced.html
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| By: Guerra | H.B. No. 3062 | |
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| relating to fentanyl prevention and drug poisoning awareness | ||
| education for students enrolled in public institutions of higher | ||
| education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.9363 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9363. FENTANYL PREVENTION AND DRUG POISONING | ||
| AWARENESS EDUCATION. (a) In this section, "institution of higher | ||
| education" and "private or independent institution of higher | ||
| education" have the meanings assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) Each institution of higher education shall provide | ||
| research-based instruction related to fentanyl prevention and drug | ||
| poisoning awareness to entering undergraduate students as soon as | ||
| practicable during the students' first semester or term at the | ||
| institution. | ||
| (c) The instruction required by this section must include: | ||
| (1) suicide prevention; | ||
| (2) prevention of the abuse of and addiction to | ||
| fentanyl; | ||
| (3) awareness of local institution and community | ||
| resources and any processes involved in accessing those resources; | ||
| and | ||
| (4) health education that includes information about | ||
| substance use and abuse, including young adult substance use and | ||
| abuse. | ||
| (d) The instruction required by this section may be provided | ||
| online and by an entity or an employee or agent of an entity that is: | ||
| (1) an institution of higher education or private or | ||
| independent institution of higher education; | ||
| (2) a library; | ||
| (3) a community service organization; | ||
| (4) a religious organization; | ||
| (5) a local public health agency; or | ||
| (6) an organization employing mental health | ||
| professionals. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.9363, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with undergraduate students who | ||
| initially enroll in a public institution of higher education for | ||
| the 2026 fall semester. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
