85R22353 MM-F
By: Parker H.B. No. 1342
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1342:
By: Allen C.S.H.B. No. 1342
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to child sexual abuse prevention training for public
school students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 38.004, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read
as follows:
(b) Each school district shall provide child abuse
antivictimization programs in elementary and secondary schools.
The programs must include annual age-appropriate, research-based
child sexual abuse prevention training designed to promote
self-protection, prevent sexual abuse and trafficking of children,
and reduce child pregnancy. The district shall:
(1) ensure that each student enrolled in the district
attends the training each year; and
(2) provide at least two opportunities each year for a
student to attend the training required that year.
(c) Not later than September 1 of each year, each school
district shall submit to the agency a report on the number and
percentage of students enrolled in the district who attended the
child sexual abuse prevention training required by Subsection (b)
during the preceding school year.
(d) In this section, "child pregnancy" means pregnancy in
children under 15 years of age.
SECTION 2. A school district shall submit the initial
report required by Section 38.004(c), Education Code, as added by
this Act, not later than September 1, 2018.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
school year.
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, 2017.