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
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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.
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