Bill Text: TX HB678 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of the National Sexual Assault Hotline on certain student identification cards issued by a public institution of higher education.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2025-05-12 - Received from the House [HB678 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB678-Engrossed.html
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| By: Walle, Lalani, Garcia of Dallas, Howard, | H.B. No. 678 | |
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| relating to the inclusion of the National Sexual Assault Hotline on | ||
| certain student identification cards issued by a public institution | ||
| of higher education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 51.91941, Education Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.91941. SUICIDE PREVENTION AND SEXUAL ASSAULT | ||
| INFORMATION REQUIRED ON STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARD. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.91941(b), Education Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) Each student identification card issued by an | ||
| institution of higher education: | ||
| (1) must have printed on the card the contact | ||
| information for: | ||
| (A) the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline; | ||
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| (B) the Crisis Text Line; and | ||
| (C) the National Sexual Assault Hotline; and | ||
| (2) may have printed on the card the contact | ||
| information for: | ||
| (A) the campus police department or security for | ||
| the campus at which the student to whom the card is issued regularly | ||
| attends classes or, if the campus does not have a campus police | ||
| department or security, a local nonemergency police contact; | ||
| (B) the campus health clinic for the campus at | ||
| which the student to whom the card is issued regularly attends | ||
| classes or, if the campus does not have a health clinic, a local | ||
| health clinic; and | ||
| (C) a local suicide prevention hotline, if | ||
| available. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 51.91941(b), Education Code, as amended | ||
| by this Act, applies only to a student identification card issued on | ||
| or after the effective date of 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, 2025. | ||
