Bill Text: TX SB279 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of suicide prevention information on certain student identification cards issued by a public school or public institution of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB279 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB279-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 279 |
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relating to the inclusion of suicide prevention information on | ||
certain student identification cards issued by a public school or | ||
public institution of higher education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 38.353 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 38.353. SUICIDE PREVENTION INFORMATION REQUIRED ON | ||
CERTAIN STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARDS. Each student identification | ||
card issued by a public school to a student in grade six or higher: | ||
(1) must have printed on the card the contact | ||
information for: | ||
(A) the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline; | ||
and | ||
(B) the Crisis Text Line; and | ||
(2) may have printed on the card the contact | ||
information for a local suicide prevention hotline, if available. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 51.91941 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 51.91941. SUICIDE PREVENTION INFORMATION REQUIRED ON | ||
STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARD. (a) In this section, "institution of | ||
higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
(b) Each student identification card issued by an | ||
institution of higher education: | ||
(1) must have printed on the card the contact | ||
information for: | ||
(A) the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline; | ||
and | ||
(B) the Crisis Text Line; and | ||
(2) may have printed on the card the contact | ||
information for: | ||
(A) the campus police department or security for | ||
the campus at which the student to whom the card is issued regularly | ||
attends classes or, if the campus does not have a campus police | ||
department or security, a local nonemergency police contact; | ||
(B) the campus health clinic for the campus at | ||
which the student to whom the card is issued regularly attends | ||
classes or, if the campus does not have a health clinic, a local | ||
health clinic; and | ||
(C) a local suicide prevention hotline, if | ||
available. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 38.353 and 51.91941, Education Code, as | ||
added by this Act, apply only to a student identification card | ||
issued on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
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, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 279 passed the Senate on | ||
April 29, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2021, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 279 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 107, | ||
Nays 40, two present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
______________________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |