H.B. No. 2010
AN ACT
relating to providing workplace safety training information for use
in the public school curriculum.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 29.923 to read as follows:
Sec. 29.923. WORKPLACE SAFETY TRAINING INFORMATION. (a)
The agency shall collect and make available to a school district on
request information regarding workplace safety training that may be
included as part of the district's curriculum.
(b) A school district may develop a workplace safety program
that provides educators access to the information described by
Subsection (a) and encourages educators to include the workplace
safety training information in the curriculum of appropriate
courses provided to students enrolled in grades 7 through 12.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
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, 2017.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2010 was passed by the House on May 9,
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 3, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2010 was passed by the Senate on May
24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor