86R8026 SOS-D
By: Turner of Tarrant H.B. No. 3658
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to drug or alcohol overdose awareness and response
training for residential advisors and officers of student
organizations at public or private institutions of higher
education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.9362 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.9362. DRUG AND ALCOHOL AWARENESS TRAINING FOR
RESIDENTIAL ADVISORS AND STUDENT ORGANIZATION OFFICERS. (a) In
this section:
(1) "Public or private institution of higher
education" includes an "institution of higher education" and a
"private or independent institution of higher education," as those
terms are defined by Section 61.003.
(2) "Residential advisor" means a student who is
employed by a public or private institution of higher education to
serve in an advisory capacity for students living in a residential
facility.
(3) "Residential facility" means a residence used
exclusively for housing or boarding students or faculty of a public
or private institution of higher education.
(4) "Student organization" includes any organization
that is composed mostly of students enrolled at a public or private
institution of higher education and that:
(A) is registered with the institution;
(B) receives student organization resource fee
revenues or other funding from the institution; or
(C) is otherwise recognized as a student
organization by the institution.
(b) A public or private institution of higher education that
imposes any mandatory training requirements on residential
advisors or officers of student organizations must ensure that drug
and alcohol overdose awareness and appropriate response training is
included with that training.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with training
required for the 2019-2020 academic 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, 2019.