84R7219 GCB-D
By: Naishtat H.B. No. 1820
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prescription drug misuse awareness component of the
health curriculum used in public schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 28.002, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (w) to read as follows:
(w) In adopting the essential knowledge and skills for the
health curriculum under Subsection (a)(2)(B), the State Board of
Education shall adopt essential knowledge and skills that address
the dangers, causes, consequences, signs, symptoms, and treatment
of nonmedical use of prescription drugs. The agency shall compile a
list of evidence-based prescription drug misuse awareness programs
from which a school district shall choose a program to use in the
district's middle school, junior high school, and high school
health curriculums. In this subsection, an "evidence-based
prescription drug misuse awareness program" means a program,
practice, or strategy that has been proven to effectively prevent
nonmedical use of prescription drugs 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 2015-2016
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, 2015.