Bill Text: TX HB528 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public schools to provide to certain parents notice regarding certain incidents and risks related to the parent's child and suicide prevention materials.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-03 - Referred to Public Education [HB528 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB528-Introduced.html
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| By: Goodwin | H.B. No. 528 | |
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| relating to requiring public schools to provide to certain parents | ||
| notice regarding certain incidents and risks related to the | ||
| parent's child and suicide prevention materials. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.0832, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (c-2) and (c-3) to read as follows: | ||
| (c-2) The procedure for providing notice to a parent or | ||
| guardian of an alleged victim of an incident of bullying under | ||
| Subsection (c)(4) must include requirements to: | ||
| (1) maintain a record that verifies the parent or | ||
| guardian was notified of the incident; and | ||
| (2) provide the parent or guardian with: | ||
| (A) suicide prevention materials; and | ||
| (B) information on ways to limit the student's | ||
| access to means of committing suicide, including a firearm or | ||
| medication. | ||
| (c-3) The agency, in coordination with the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission, shall select the materials and information | ||
| described by Subsection (c-2)(2). | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 38.351, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (e-1) and (e-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (e-1) The board of trustees of a school district or the | ||
| governing body of an open-enrollment charter school shall adopt a | ||
| policy that establishes a procedure for providing notice in | ||
| addition to any notice provided in accordance with Subsection | ||
| (e)(3) to a parent or guardian of a student who is identified as at | ||
| risk of suicide. The procedure must include requirements to: | ||
| (1) maintain a record that verifies the parent or | ||
| guardian was notified regarding the risk; and | ||
| (2) provide the parent or guardian with: | ||
| (A) suicide prevention materials; and | ||
| (B) information on ways to limit the student's | ||
| access to means of committing suicide, including a firearm or | ||
| medication. | ||
| (e-2) The agency, in coordination with the Health and Human | ||
| Services Commission, shall select the materials and information | ||
| described by Subsection (e-1)(2). | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
