Bill Text: TX SB1893 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a trauma-informed care policy for school districts and open-enrollment charter schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Education [SB1893 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1893-Introduced.html
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| By: Taylor | S.B. No. 1893 | |
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| relating to a trauma-informed care policy for school districts and | ||
| open-enrollment charter schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 11.252(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) Each school district shall have a district improvement | ||
| plan that is developed, evaluated, and revised annually, in | ||
| accordance with district policy, by the superintendent with the | ||
| assistance of the district-level committee established under | ||
| Section 11.251. The purpose of the district improvement plan is to | ||
| guide district and campus staff in the improvement of student | ||
| performance for all student groups in order to attain state | ||
| standards in respect to the achievement indicators adopted under | ||
| Section 39.053(c). The district improvement plan must include | ||
| provisions for: | ||
| (1) a comprehensive needs assessment addressing | ||
| district student performance on the achievement indicators, and | ||
| other appropriate measures of performance, that are disaggregated | ||
| by all student groups served by the district, including categories | ||
| of ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sex, and populations served by | ||
| special programs, including students in special education programs | ||
| under Subchapter A, Chapter 29; | ||
| (2) measurable district performance objectives for | ||
| all appropriate achievement indicators for all student | ||
| populations, including students in special education programs | ||
| under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, and other measures of student | ||
| performance that may be identified through the comprehensive needs | ||
| assessment; | ||
| (3) strategies for improvement of student performance | ||
| that include: | ||
| (A) instructional methods for addressing the | ||
| needs of student groups not achieving their full potential; | ||
| (B) methods for addressing the needs of students | ||
| for special programs, including: | ||
| (i) suicide prevention programs, in | ||
| accordance with Subchapter O-1, Chapter 161, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, which includes a parental or guardian notification procedure; | ||
| (ii) conflict resolution programs; | ||
| (iii) violence prevention programs; and | ||
| (iv) dyslexia treatment programs; | ||
| (C) dropout reduction; | ||
| (D) integration of technology in instructional | ||
| and administrative programs; | ||
| (E) discipline management; | ||
| (F) staff development for professional staff of | ||
| the district; | ||
| (G) career education to assist students in | ||
| developing the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary for a | ||
| broad range of career opportunities; and | ||
| (H) accelerated education; | ||
| (4) strategies for providing to middle school, junior | ||
| high school, and high school students, those students' teachers and | ||
| school counselors, and those students' parents information about: | ||
| (A) higher education admissions and financial | ||
| aid opportunities; | ||
| (B) the TEXAS grant program and the Teach for | ||
| Texas grant program established under Chapter 56; | ||
| (C) the need for students to make informed | ||
| curriculum choices to be prepared for success beyond high school; | ||
| and | ||
| (D) sources of information on higher education | ||
| admissions and financial aid; | ||
| (5) resources needed to implement identified | ||
| strategies; | ||
| (6) staff responsible for ensuring the accomplishment | ||
| of each strategy; | ||
| (7) timelines for ongoing monitoring of the | ||
| implementation of each improvement strategy; | ||
| (8) formative evaluation criteria for determining | ||
| periodically whether strategies are resulting in intended | ||
| improvement of student performance; [ |
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| (9) the policy under Section 38.0041 addressing sexual | ||
| abuse and other maltreatment of children; and | ||
| (10) the trauma-informed care policy under Section | ||
| 38.036. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.036 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.036. TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE POLICY. (a) Each school | ||
| district and open-enrollment charter school shall adopt and | ||
| implement a policy requiring the integration of trauma-informed | ||
| practices in each school environment. A district must include the | ||
| policy in the district improvement plan required under Section | ||
| 11.252. | ||
| (b) A policy required by this section must address: | ||
| (1) using resources developed by the agency, methods | ||
| for: | ||
| (A) increasing staff and parent awareness of | ||
| trauma-informed care; and | ||
| (B) implementation of trauma-informed practices | ||
| and care by district and campus staff; and | ||
| (2) available counseling options for students | ||
| affected by trauma or grief. | ||
| (c) The methods under Subsection (b)(1) for increasing | ||
| awareness and implementation of trauma-informed care must include | ||
| training as provided by this subsection. The training: | ||
| (1) must be provided: | ||
| (A) through a program selected from the list of | ||
| recommended best practice-based programs and research-based | ||
| practices established under Section 161.325, Health and Safety | ||
| Code; and | ||
| (B) as part of any new employee orientation for | ||
| all new school district and open-enrollment charter school | ||
| educators; and | ||
| (2) may be: | ||
| (A) provided annually to all school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school employees; and | ||
| (B) included in staff development under Section | ||
| 21.451. | ||
| (d) For any training under Subsection (c), each school | ||
| district and open-enrollment charter school shall maintain records | ||
| that include the name of each district or charter school staff | ||
| member who participated in the training. | ||
| (e) If a school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
| determines that the district or charter school does not have | ||
| sufficient resources to provide the training required under | ||
| Subsection (c), the district or charter school may partner with a | ||
| community mental health organization to provide training that meets | ||
| the requirements of Subsection (c) at no cost to the district or | ||
| charter school. | ||
| (f) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| administer this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
