Bill Text: TX SB1316 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to staff development in suicide prevention for public school educators.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-14 - Referred to Education [SB1316 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1316-Introduced.html
  85R12532 SRS-D
 
  By: Hall S.B. No. 1316
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to staff development in suicide prevention for public
  school educators.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 21.451(d), (d-1), and (d-2), Education
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (d)  The staff development:
               (1)  may include training in:
                     (A)  technology;
                     (B)  conflict resolution;
                     (C)  discipline strategies, including classroom
  management, district discipline policies, and the student code of
  conduct adopted under Section 37.001 and Chapter 37; and
                     (D)  preventing, identifying, responding to, and
  reporting incidents of bullying;
               (2)  subject to Subsection (e) and to Section 21.3541
  and rules adopted under that section, must include training that is
  evidence-based [based on scientifically based research], as
  defined by Section 8002(6), Every Student Succeeds Act [9101, No
  Child Left Behind Act of 2001] (20 U.S.C. Section 7801), and that:
                     (A)  relates to instruction of students with
  disabilities; and
                     (B)  is designed for educators who work primarily
  outside the area of special education; and
               (3)  may [must] include suicide prevention training
  that may [must] be provided:
                     (A)  on an annual basis, as part of a new employee
  orientation, to all new school district and open-enrollment charter
  school educators; and
                     (B)  to existing school district and
  open-enrollment charter school educators on a schedule adopted by
  the agency by rule.
         (d-1)  The suicide prevention training under [required by]
  Subsection (d)(3) may [must] use a best practice-based program
  recommended by the Department of State Health Services in
  coordination with the agency under Section 161.325, Health and
  Safety Code.
         (d-2)  The suicide prevention training under [required by]
  Subsection (d)(3) may be provided [satisfied] through independent
  review of suicide prevention training material that:
               (1)  complies with the guidelines developed by the
  agency; and
               (2)  is offered online.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
  school year.
         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, 2017.
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