Bill Text: TX HB4016 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to healthy relationships education in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Public Education [HB4016 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4016-Introduced.html
88R415 KJE-F | ||
By: González of El Paso | H.B. No. 4016 |
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relating to healthy relationships education in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 28.0041 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 28.0041. HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS EDUCATION. (a) In | ||
this section, "age-appropriate" means suitable to particular ages | ||
or age groups of children or adolescents, based on developing | ||
cognitive, emotional, and behavioral capacity typical for the age | ||
or age group. | ||
(b) A school district shall provide healthy relationships | ||
education in accordance with this section at grade levels and in | ||
courses specified by the State Board of Education. | ||
(c) The State Board of Education by rule shall adopt the | ||
essential knowledge and skills for curricula to be used by a school | ||
district in providing healthy relationships education under this | ||
section that are age-appropriate and supported by research that is | ||
peer-reviewed, conducted in compliance with accepted scientific | ||
methods, and recognized as accurate by leading professional | ||
organizations and agencies with relevant experience. As | ||
age-appropriate, the curricula must promote relationship, | ||
communication, and decision-making skills, including strategies | ||
to: | ||
(1) develop healthy, age-appropriate relationships; | ||
(2) develop healthy life skills, including critical | ||
thinking, problem solving, effective communication, and | ||
responsible decision making about relationships; and | ||
(3) promote effective communication between | ||
adolescents and their parents, legal guardians, or other family | ||
members about relationships. | ||
(d) A school district shall make all curriculum materials | ||
used in the district's healthy relationships education available | ||
for reasonable public inspection. | ||
(e) A student shall be excused from healthy relationships | ||
education on the written request of a parent or legal guardian | ||
without being subjected to any disciplinary action, academic | ||
penalty, or other sanction imposed by the school district or the | ||
student's school. | ||
(f) A parent or legal guardian may use the grievance | ||
procedure adopted under Section 26.011 concerning a complaint of a | ||
violation of this section. | ||
(g) Before each school year, a school district shall provide | ||
written notice to a parent or legal guardian of each student | ||
enrolled in the district of the intent to provide healthy | ||
relationships education under this section. The notice must | ||
include: | ||
(1) a summary of the basic content of the healthy | ||
relationships education to be provided to the student; | ||
(2) a description of the curricula requirements for | ||
healthy relationships education under Subsection (c); | ||
(3) a statement of the parent's or legal guardian's | ||
right to: | ||
(A) review curriculum materials as provided by | ||
Subsection (d); | ||
(B) remove the student from any part of the | ||
district's healthy relationships education as provided by | ||
Subsection (e); and | ||
(C) use the grievance procedure adopted under | ||
Section 26.011 concerning a complaint of a violation of this | ||
section, as provided by Subsection (f); and | ||
(4) information regarding any opportunities for the | ||
parent or legal guardian to participate in the development of | ||
curricula for healthy relationships education. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 12.104(b), Education Code, as amended by | ||
Chapters 542 (S.B. 168), 887 (S.B. 1697), 915 (H.B. 3607), 974 (S.B. | ||
2081), and 1046 (S.B. 1365), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2021, is reenacted and amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) An open-enrollment charter school is subject to: | ||
(1) a provision of this title establishing a criminal | ||
offense; | ||
(2) the provisions in Chapter 554, Government Code; | ||
and | ||
(3) a prohibition, restriction, or requirement, as | ||
applicable, imposed by this title or a rule adopted under this | ||
title, relating to: | ||
(A) the Public Education Information Management | ||
System (PEIMS) to the extent necessary to monitor compliance with | ||
this subchapter as determined by the commissioner; | ||
(B) criminal history records under Subchapter C, | ||
Chapter 22; | ||
(C) reading instruments and accelerated reading | ||
instruction programs under Section 28.006; | ||
(D) accelerated instruction under Section | ||
28.0211; | ||
(E) high school graduation requirements under | ||
Section 28.025; | ||
(F) special education programs under Subchapter | ||
A, Chapter 29; | ||
(G) bilingual education under Subchapter B, | ||
Chapter 29; | ||
(H) prekindergarten programs under Subchapter E | ||
or E-1, Chapter 29, except class size limits for prekindergarten | ||
classes imposed under Section 25.112, which do not apply; | ||
(I) extracurricular activities under Section | ||
33.081; | ||
(J) discipline management practices or behavior | ||
management techniques under Section 37.0021; | ||
(K) health and safety under Chapter 38; | ||
(L) the provisions of Subchapter A, Chapter 39; | ||
(M) public school accountability and special | ||
investigations under Subchapters A, B, C, D, F, G, and J, Chapter | ||
39, and Chapter 39A; | ||
(N) the requirement under Section 21.006 to | ||
report an educator's misconduct; | ||
(O) intensive programs of instruction under | ||
Section 28.0213; | ||
(P) the right of a school employee to report a | ||
crime, as provided by Section 37.148; | ||
(Q) bullying prevention policies and procedures | ||
under Section 37.0832; | ||
(R) the right of a school under Section 37.0052 | ||
to place a student who has engaged in certain bullying behavior in a | ||
disciplinary alternative education program or to expel the student; | ||
(S) the right under Section 37.0151 to report to | ||
local law enforcement certain conduct constituting assault or | ||
harassment; | ||
(T) a parent's right to information regarding the | ||
provision of assistance for learning difficulties to the parent's | ||
child as provided by Sections 26.004(b)(11) and 26.0081(c) and (d); | ||
(U) establishment of residency under Section | ||
25.001; | ||
(V) school safety requirements under Sections | ||
37.108, 37.1081, 37.1082, 37.109, 37.113, 37.114, 37.1141, 37.115, | ||
37.207, and 37.2071; | ||
(W) the early childhood literacy and mathematics | ||
proficiency plans under Section 11.185; | ||
(X) the college, career, and military readiness | ||
plans under Section 11.186; [ |
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under Section 28.02124; and | ||
(Z) healthy relationships education under | ||
Section 28.0041. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2024-2025 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 4. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails | ||
over another Act of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, | ||
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted | ||
codes. | ||
SECTION 5. 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, 2023. |