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| 1 | 1 | 87R4891 TSS-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Menéndez S.B. No. 407 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to reporting the number of incidents of bullying and | |
| 8 | 8 | cyberbullying in a school district and open-enrollment charter | |
| 9 | 9 | school through the Public Education Information Management System. | |
| 10 | 10 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 11 | 11 | SECTION 1. Section 48.009, Education Code, is amended by | |
| 12 | 12 | adding Subsection (b-4) to read as follows: | |
| 13 | 13 | (b-4) The commissioner by rule shall require each school | |
| 14 | 14 | district and open-enrollment charter school to annually report | |
| 15 | 15 | through the Public Education Information Management System the | |
| 16 | 16 | number of reported incidents of bullying that have occurred at each | |
| 17 | 17 | campus. The commissioner's rules shall require a district or | |
| 18 | 18 | school to specify the number of incidents of bullying that included | |
| 19 | 19 | cyberbullying. | |
| 20 | 20 | SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | |
| 21 | 21 | school year. | |
| 22 | 22 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | |
| 23 | 23 | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | |
| 24 | 24 | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | |
| 25 | 25 | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | |
| 26 | 26 | Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |