Texas 2013 83rd Regular

Texas House Bill HB1454 House Committee Report / Bill

Filed 02/01/2025

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                    83R18419 MEW-D
 By: N. Gonzalez of El Paso H.B. No. 1454
 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1454:
 By:  Perez C.S.H.B. No. 1454


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to events to educate students about Type 2 diabetes in
 certain school districts.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is
 amended by adding Section 38.028 to read as follows:
 Sec. 38.028.  TYPE 2 DIABETES PREVENTION AND AWARENESS
 PROGRAM. (a) This section applies only to a school district with a
 student enrollment of at least 60,000 that is located in a county on
 the international border with a population of 800,000 or more.
 (b)  A school district to which this section applies shall
 hold an event once each school year in which local nonprofit
 diabetes prevention organizations visit each school campus to
 educate students in the third through 12th grades about Type 2
 diabetes prevention and awareness.
 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.