Bill Text: TX SB278 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 278 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to an alcohol awareness component of the science curriculum used in public schools.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-05 - Referred to Education [SB278 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB278-Introduced.html

	83R809 EAH-D

	By: Watson	S.B. No. 278



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to an alcohol awareness component of the science
	curriculum used in public schools.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 28.002(r), Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(r) The [~~In adopting the essential knowledge and skills for~~
	~~the health curriculum under Subsection~~ ~~(a)(2)(B), the~~] State Board
	of Education by rule shall require a school district or
	open-enrollment charter school to provide to students in middle
	school, junior high school, and high school instruction [~~adopt~~
	~~essential knowledge and skills~~] that addresses [~~address~~] the
	dangers, causes, consequences, signs, symptoms, and treatment of
	binge drinking and alcohol poisoning. The agency shall compile a
	list of evidence-based alcohol awareness programs from which a
	school district or open-enrollment charter school shall choose a
	program to use in the district's or school's middle school, junior
	high school, and high school science [~~health~~] curriculum. The
	agency shall make alcohol awareness programs available without
	cost. To the extent possible, the programs shall be accessible
	electronically for school districts and open-enrollment charter
	schools. A high school shall use a program chosen under this
	subsection in a course that satisfies the science curriculum
	requirement for graduation under Section 28.025(b-1)(1)(A). In
	this subsection, "evidence-based alcohol awareness program" means
	a program, practice, or strategy that has been proven to
	effectively prevent or delay alcohol use among students, as
	determined by evaluations that use valid and reliable measures and
	that are published in peer-reviewed journals.
	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
	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, 2013.