Bill Text: TX SB800 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to a public institution of higher education's sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking resources and policy orientation.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [SB800 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB800-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 800

AN ACT
relating to a public institution of higher education's sexual
harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking
resources and policy orientation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.282(c), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) Each postsecondary educational institution shall
require each entering freshman or undergraduate transfer student to
attend an orientation on the institution's sexual harassment,
sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking policy before or
during the first semester or term in which the student is enrolled
at the institution. The institution shall establish the format and
content of the orientation. The orientation:
(1) may be provided online; and
(2) must include:
(A) a video that states:
(i) the names of the institution's Title IX
coordinators and deputy coordinators;
(ii) the location and contact information
of the institution's Title IX office;
(iii) the services provided by the
institution's Title IX office;
(iv) how to report a sexual assault to the
institution;
(v) information regarding the crime
victims' compensation program; and
(vi) a list of local community and
statewide organizations that provide support services to survivors
of sexual assault; and
(B) the statements described by Subsection
(a)(1)(E).
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 51.91941, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 51.91941. SUICIDE PREVENTION AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
INFORMATION REQUIRED ON STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARD.
SECTION 3. Section 51.91941(b), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(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
(C) the National Sexual Assault Hotline; 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 4. Section 51.282(c), Education Code, as amended by
this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year.
SECTION 5. Section 51.91941(b), Education Code, as amended
by this Act, applies only to a student identification card issued on
or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 6. 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. 800 passed the Senate on
April 30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 30, 2025, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 800 passed the House, with
amendments, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 94,
Nays 38, two present not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
______________________________
Governor