87R3169 JES-F
By: Ramos H.B. No. 1144
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to staff development requirements for public educators
regarding suicide prevention and other mental health training.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 21.451(d-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(d-1) The training required by Subsection (d)(3):
(1) must:
(A) be provided:
(i) on an annual basis, as part of a new
employee orientation, to all new school district and
open-enrollment charter school educators; and
(ii) 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 two years; and
(B) use a best practice-based program
recommended by the Health and Human Services Commission in
coordination with the agency under Section 38.351; and
(2) may include two or more listed topics together.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.