85R12532 SRS-D
By: Hall S.B. No. 1316
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to staff development in suicide prevention for public
school educators.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 21.451(d), (d-1), and (d-2), Education
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(d) The staff development:
(1) may include training in:
(A) technology;
(B) conflict resolution;
(C) discipline strategies, including classroom
management, district discipline policies, and the student code of
conduct adopted under Section 37.001 and Chapter 37; and
(D) preventing, identifying, responding to, and
reporting incidents of bullying;
(2) subject to Subsection (e) and to Section 21.3541
and rules adopted under that section, must include training that is
evidence-based [based on scientifically based research], as
defined by Section 8002(6), Every Student Succeeds Act [9101, No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001] (20 U.S.C. Section 7801), and that:
(A) relates to instruction of students with
disabilities; and
(B) is designed for educators who work primarily
outside the area of special education; and
(3) may [must] include suicide prevention training
that may [must] be provided:
(A) on an annual basis, as part of a new employee
orientation, to all new school district and open-enrollment charter
school educators; and
(B) to existing school district and
open-enrollment charter school educators on a schedule adopted by
the agency by rule.
(d-1) The suicide prevention training under [required by]
Subsection (d)(3) may [must] use a best practice-based program
recommended by the Department of State Health Services in
coordination with the agency under Section 161.325, Health and
Safety Code.
(d-2) The suicide prevention training under [required by]
Subsection (d)(3) may be provided [satisfied] through independent
review of suicide prevention training material that:
(1) complies with the guidelines developed by the
agency; and
(2) is offered online.
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.