| 1 | 1 | | 85R9705 GCB-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Moody H.B. No. 3449 |
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| 4 | 4 | | |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to staff development requirements for public school |
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| 8 | 8 | | educators regarding mental health and suicide prevention. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Section 21.451(d), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 11 | 11 | | read as follows: |
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| 12 | 12 | | (d) The staff development: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (1) may include training in: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (A) technology; |
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| 15 | 15 | | (B) conflict resolution; |
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| 16 | 16 | | (C) discipline strategies, including classroom |
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| 17 | 17 | | management, district discipline policies, and the student code of |
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| 18 | 18 | | conduct adopted under Section 37.001 and Chapter 37; and |
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| 19 | 19 | | (D) preventing, identifying, responding to, and |
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| 20 | 20 | | reporting incidents of bullying; |
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| 21 | 21 | | (2) subject to Subsection (e) and to Section 21.3541 |
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| 22 | 22 | | and rules adopted under that section, must include training that is |
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| 23 | 23 | | evidence-based [based on scientifically based research], as |
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| 24 | 24 | | defined by Section 8101, Every Student Succeeds Act [9101, No Child |
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| 25 | 25 | | Left Behind Act of 2001] (20 U.S.C. Section 7801), that: |
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| 26 | 26 | | (A) relates to instruction of students with |
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| 27 | 27 | | disabilities; and |
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| 28 | 28 | | (B) is designed for educators who work primarily |
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| 29 | 29 | | outside the area of special education; and |
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| 30 | 30 | | (3) must include three hours of training about mental |
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| 31 | 31 | | health issues, mental health care, and suicide prevention |
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| 32 | 32 | | [training] that must be provided: |
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| 33 | 33 | | (A) on an annual basis, as part of a new employee |
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| 34 | 34 | | orientation, to all new school district and open-enrollment charter |
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| 35 | 35 | | school educators; and |
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| 36 | 36 | | (B) to existing school district and |
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| 37 | 37 | | open-enrollment charter school educators on a schedule adopted by |
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| 38 | 38 | | the agency by rule. |
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| 39 | 39 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 40 | 40 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 41 | 41 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 42 | 42 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 43 | 43 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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