Bill Text: TX HR2609 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 968.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-31 - Reported enrolled [HR2609 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR2609-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 968.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-31 - Reported enrolled [HR2609 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR2609-Introduced.html
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By: Alvarado | H.R. No. 2609 |
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BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of | ||
Texas, 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, That House Rule 13, | ||
Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13, | ||
Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to | ||
resolve the differences on Senate Bill 968 (a sexual assault policy | ||
at certain public and private institutions of higher education and | ||
to requiring those institutions to provide students and employees | ||
an option to electronically report certain offenses to the | ||
institution) to consider and take action on the following matter: | ||
House Rule 13, Section 9(a)(4), is suspended to permit the | ||
committee to add text on a matter which is not included in either | ||
the house or senate version of the bill in SECTION 1 of the bill, in | ||
amended Section 51.9363, Education Code, to read as follows: | ||
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section, "postsecondary educational institution" means an | ||
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(b) Each postsecondary educational institution [ |
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applicable to each student enrolled at and each employee of the | ||
institution. The policy must: | ||
(1) include: | ||
(A) definitions of prohibited behavior; | ||
(B) sanctions for violations; and | ||
(C) the protocol for reporting and responding to | ||
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(2) be approved by the institution's governing board | ||
before final adoption by the institution. | ||
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policy available to students, faculty, and staff members by: | ||
(1) including the policy in the institution's student | ||
handbook and personnel handbook; and | ||
(2) creating and maintaining a web page on the | ||
institution's Internet website dedicated solely to the policy. | ||
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transfer student to attend an orientation on the institution's | ||
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or term in which the student is enrolled at the institution. The | ||
institution shall establish the format and content of the | ||
orientation. | ||
Explanation: This addition is necessary to expand to private | ||
or independent institutions of higher education the requirements | ||
regarding a sexual assault policy and to require the policy to | ||
encompass all incidents of sexual assault, regardless of whether | ||
those incidents occur on or off campus. |