| 1 | 1 | | 88R10961 CXP-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Alvarado S.B. No. 2165 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the inclusion of the National Sexual Assault Hotline on |
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| 8 | 8 | | certain student identification cards issued by a public institution |
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| 9 | 9 | | of higher education. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. The heading to Section 51.91941, Education Code, |
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| 12 | 12 | | is amended to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | Sec. 51.91941. SUICIDE PREVENTION AND SEXUAL ASSAULT |
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| 14 | 14 | | INFORMATION REQUIRED ON STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARD. |
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| 15 | 15 | | SECTION 2. Section 51.91941(b), Education Code, is amended |
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| 16 | 16 | | to read as follows: |
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| 17 | 17 | | (b) Each student identification card issued by an |
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| 18 | 18 | | institution of higher education: |
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| 19 | 19 | | (1) must have printed on the card the contact |
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| 20 | 20 | | information for: |
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| 21 | 21 | | (A) the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline; |
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| 22 | 22 | | [and] |
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| 23 | 23 | | (B) the Crisis Text Line; and |
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| 24 | 24 | | (C) the National Sexual Assault Hotline; and |
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| 25 | 25 | | (2) may have printed on the card the contact |
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| 26 | 26 | | information for: |
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| 27 | 27 | | (A) the campus police department or security for |
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| 28 | 28 | | the campus at which the student to whom the card is issued regularly |
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| 29 | 29 | | attends classes or, if the campus does not have a campus police |
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| 30 | 30 | | department or security, a local nonemergency police contact; |
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| 31 | 31 | | (B) the campus health clinic for the campus at |
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| 32 | 32 | | which the student to whom the card is issued regularly attends |
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| 33 | 33 | | classes or, if the campus does not have a health clinic, a local |
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| 34 | 34 | | health clinic; and |
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| 35 | 35 | | (C) a local suicide prevention hotline, if |
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| 36 | 36 | | available. |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 3. Section 51.91941(b), Education Code, as amended |
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| 38 | 38 | | by this Act, applies only to a student identification card issued on |
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| 39 | 39 | | or after the effective date of this Act. |
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| 40 | 40 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 41 | 41 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 42 | 42 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 43 | 43 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 44 | 44 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |
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