Bill Text: TX SB291 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed

Texas Senate Bill 291 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-17 - Left pending in committee [SB291 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB291-Engrossed.html



	By: Watson	S.B. No. 291


	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. Subsection (r), Section 28.002, 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 instruction [~~adopt~~
	~~essential knowledge and skills~~] that addresses [~~address~~] the
	dangers, causes, consequences, signs, symptoms, and treatment of
	binge drinking and alcohol poisoning to students in middle school,
	junior high school, and high school. 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 that are available
	without cost accessible electronically for school districts and
	open-enrollment charter schools to the extent possible. 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 2011-2012
	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, 2011.