Bill Text: TX SB1699 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a model framework to address certain barriers to student learning.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-02 - Left pending in committee [SB1699 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1699-Introduced.html
85R12450 GCB-F | ||
By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1699 |
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relating to a model framework to address certain barriers to | ||
student learning. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.034 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.034. MODEL FRAMEWORK TO ADDRESS CERTAIN BARRIERS TO | ||
STUDENT LEARNING. (a) The agency, in coordination with the Health | ||
and Human Services Commission and the Texas Department of Juvenile | ||
Justice, shall develop a model framework to assist school districts | ||
in identifying and coordinating, to the greatest extent possible, | ||
an array of existing school-based and community-based programs and | ||
resources to maximize the individual and collective impact of those | ||
programs and resources for the purposes of: | ||
(1) addressing nonacademic barriers to student | ||
learning, including for students in a special education program | ||
under Subchapter A, Chapter 29; and | ||
(2) reducing the use of exclusionary discipline | ||
practices. | ||
(b) The model framework developed under Subsection (a) may | ||
include programs and resources, including strategies, addressing: | ||
(1) skills related to managing emotions, establishing | ||
and maintaining positive relationships, and making responsible | ||
decisions; | ||
(2) positive school climate; | ||
(3) positive behavior strategies; | ||
(4) student physical and mental health, including the | ||
effects of childhood trauma and adverse experiences on development | ||
and behavior; | ||
(5) substance abuse prevention and intervention; | ||
(6) bullying prevention and intervention; | ||
(7) suicide prevention; | ||
(8) truancy prevention and intervention; | ||
(9) delinquency prevention and intervention; and | ||
(10) dropout prevention. | ||
(c) The agency, in coordination with regional education | ||
service centers, shall provide school districts with training and | ||
technical assistance on: | ||
(1) the use of the model framework developed under | ||
Subsection (a); and | ||
(2) the use of developmentally appropriate, | ||
evidence-based strategies in reducing the use of exclusionary | ||
discipline practices in prekindergarten programs and special | ||
education programs under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, and in grades 1 | ||
through 12, including strategies that promote: | ||
(A) skills related to managing emotions, | ||
establishing and maintaining positive relationships, and making | ||
responsible decisions; | ||
(B) school-wide positive behavioral | ||
interventions and supports; | ||
(C) restorative discipline practices; and | ||
(D) trauma-informed practices. | ||
(d) The agency shall coordinate with the Texas Higher | ||
Education Coordinating Board to identify institutions of higher | ||
education and private or independent institutions of higher | ||
education, as those terms are defined under Section 61.003, with | ||
expertise in the strategies described by Subsection (c)(2). To the | ||
greatest extent possible, the agency shall partner with those | ||
institutions to provide training, technical assistance, and | ||
information to school districts on using the programs and | ||
resources, including strategies, identified under the model | ||
framework. | ||
(e) The agency shall identify best practices in addressing | ||
nonacademic barriers to learning that are implemented in school | ||
districts and communities in this state. | ||
(f) The agency shall develop and implement a plan to | ||
facilitate peer-to-peer learning among school districts and | ||
community-based providers and to replicate the best practices | ||
described by Subsection (e). | ||
SECTION 2. 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. |