| 1 | | - | By: Hernandez (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa, West) H.B. No. 1754 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 2021; |
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| 3 | | - | May 17, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | | - | Education; May 24, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable |
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| 5 | | - | Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; |
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| 6 | | - | May 24, 2021, sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 8 | | - | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1754 By: Menéndez |
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| 1 | + | By: Hernandez H.B. No. 1754 |
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| 27 | | - | (2) may have printed on either side of the card the |
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| 28 | | - | telephone number for a local suicide prevention hotline, if |
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| 29 | | - | available. |
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| 30 | | - | SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is |
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| 31 | | - | amended by adding Section 51.91941 to read as follows: |
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| 32 | | - | Sec. 51.91941. SUICIDE PREVENTION INFORMATION REQUIRED ON |
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| 33 | | - | STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARD. (a) In this section, "institution of |
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| 34 | | - | higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. |
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| 35 | | - | (b) Each student identification card issued by an |
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| 36 | | - | institution of higher education: |
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| 37 | | - | (1) must have printed on either side of the card the |
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| 38 | | - | telephone number for: |
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| 39 | | - | (A) the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline; |
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| 40 | | - | (B) the Crisis Text Line; and |
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| 41 | | - | (C) the campus police department or security for |
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| 42 | | - | the campus at which the student to whom the card is issued regularly |
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| 43 | | - | attends classes or, if the campus does not have a campus police |
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| 44 | | - | department or security, a local nonemergency police contact; and |
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| 45 | | - | (2) may have printed on either side of the card the |
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| 46 | | - | telephone number for a local suicide prevention hotline, if |
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| 47 | | - | available. |
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| 48 | | - | SECTION 3. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 38.353 and |
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| 49 | | - | 51.91941, Education Code, as added by this Act, if, on January 1, |
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| 50 | | - | 2022, a public school or a public institution of higher education |
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| 51 | | - | subject to the requirements of Section 38.353 or 51.91941, |
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| 52 | | - | Education Code, as applicable, has a supply of unissued student |
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| 53 | | - | identification cards that do not comply with the applicable |
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| 54 | | - | requirements of those sections, the public school or public |
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| 55 | | - | institution of higher education may issue those student |
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| 56 | | - | identification cards until the supply of cards is depleted. |
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| 57 | | - | (b) Sections 38.353 and 51.91941, Education Code, as added |
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| 58 | | - | by this Act, apply only to an initial or replacement student |
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| 59 | | - | identification card issued on or after June 1, 2022. |
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| 60 | | - | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 19 | + | (2) may have printed on the card the contact |
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| 20 | + | information for a local suicide prevention hotline, if available. |
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| 21 | + | SECTION 2. Section 38.353, Education Code, as added by this |
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| 22 | + | Act, applies beginning with student identification cards issued for |
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| 23 | + | the 2022-2023 school year. |
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| 24 | + | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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