86R8443 JES-D
By: Turner of Dallas H.B. No. 2145
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to continuing education requirements for public educators
regarding suicide prevention training.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.451(d), Education Code, is 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;
(D) preventing, identifying, responding to, and
reporting incidents of bullying; and
(E) digital learning;
(2) subject to Subsection (e) and to Section 21.3541
and rules adopted under that section, must include training that is
evidence-based, as defined by Section 8101, Every Student Succeeds
Act (20 U.S.C. Section 7801), 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) must include suicide prevention training that 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 that requires an educator to be trained at least
once every five years.
SECTION 2. An educator subject to continuing education
requirements immediately before the effective date of this Act is
not required to comply with the continuing education requirements
described by Section 21.451(d)(3)(B), Education Code, as amended by
this Act, for any continuing education requirement period that ends
before June 1, 2020.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.