Bill Text: TX SB1952 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the administration and operation of the school health and related services program.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective immediately [SB1952 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB1952-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1952 | ||
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| relating to the administration and operation of the school health | ||
| and related services program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 532, Government Code, as | ||
| effective April 1, 2025, is amended by adding Section 532.00515 to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 532.00515. SCHOOL HEALTH AND RELATED SERVICES PROGRAM. | ||
| (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Local education agency" includes a school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school. | ||
| (2) "Regional education service center" means a | ||
| regional education service center established under Chapter 8, | ||
| Education Code. | ||
| (b) In accordance with Section 532.0051(a), the commission | ||
| is the sole state agency responsible for administering the school | ||
| health and related services program. | ||
| (c) The commission shall: | ||
| (1) oversee the participation of local education | ||
| agencies as providers in the school health and related services | ||
| program, including: | ||
| (A) the administration of provider training; and | ||
| (B) the provision of information and guidance | ||
| regarding the program to those providers, including guidance on | ||
| applicable federal and state regulatory requirements; and | ||
| (2) collaborate with regional education service | ||
| centers to provide resources, information, and other appropriate | ||
| assistance to local education agencies participating or seeking to | ||
| participate as providers in the school health and related services | ||
| program. | ||
| (d) The commission and the Texas Education Agency shall | ||
| enter into a memorandum of understanding that specifically | ||
| identifies the responsibilities of each agency with respect to | ||
| operating the school health and related services program. | ||
| SECTION 2. If before implementing any provision of this Act | ||
| a state agency determines that a waiver or authorization from a | ||
| federal agency is necessary for implementation of that provision, | ||
| the agency affected by the provision shall request the waiver or | ||
| authorization and may delay implementing that provision until the | ||
| waiver or authorization is granted. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1952 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 24, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1952 passed the House on | ||
| May 21, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 123, Nays 17, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
