Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R8549 JDK-D
2	2	By: Thompson H.B. No. 2880
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to providing a designation for school district campuses
10	10	that take certain action to address the mental and behavioral
11	11	health and well-being of students.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 33, Education Code, is
14	14	amended by adding Section 33.917 to read as follows:
15	15	Sec. 33.917. ADVANCING WELLNESS AND RESILIENCY IN EDUCATION
16	16	(AWARE) CAMPUS. (a) In this section, "school climate" has the
17	17	meaning assigned by Section 38.351(d).
18	18	(b) The agency shall designate a school district campus as
19	19	an Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education (AWARE) Campus if
20	20	the campus applies and qualifies for the designation under this
21	21	section.
22	22	(c) To qualify as an Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in
23	23	Education (AWARE) Campus, a school district campus must:
24	24	(1) employ a school counselor who spends at least 80
25	25	percent of the counselor's total work time on duties included in a
26	26	comprehensive school counseling program developed under Section
27	27	33.005;
28	28	(2) maintain formal community partnerships with
29	29	community-based mental and behavioral health care providers to
30	30	increase student and family access to care, including by
31	31	contracting with:
32	32	(A) a local mental health authority; and
33	33	(B) the Texas Child Mental Health Care
34	34	Consortium;
35	35	(3) offer training for campus staff members on issues
36	36	related to the mental and behavioral health and well-being of
37	37	students as required by Sections 21.451, 22.904, 38.036, and 38.351
38	38	and maintain documentation of the completion of the training;
39	39	(4) as part of the safe and supportive school program
40	40	implemented under Section 37.115, provide a systemic and
41	41	coordinated multitiered support system that addresses school
42	42	climate, the social and emotional domain, psychological safety, and
43	43	mental and behavioral health, which must include:
44	44	(A) a multidisciplinary team for the
45	45	coordination of campus multitiered support system strategies;
46	46	(B) the maintenance of a resource list of
47	47	available school-based, school-connected, and community-based
48	48	mental and behavioral health and well-being interventions and
49	49	supports available to students and families;
50	50	(C) a referral pathway for mental and behavioral
51	51	health and well-being interventions and supports available to
52	52	students and families in need of additional support outside of
53	53	school; and
54	54	(D) methods to objectively measure positive
55	55	school climate in the school; and
56	56	(5) maintain on the campus's Internet website an
57	57	easily accessible web page that includes information on how to
58	58	access school-based and community-based mental and behavioral
59	59	health and well-being interventions and supports available to
60	60	students and families, including:
61	61	(A) counseling and other mental and behavioral
62	62	health and well-being support services, including out-of-school
63	63	time programs;
64	64	(B) community-based mental and behavioral health
65	65	and well-being support services; and
66	66	(C) district referral procedures and parental
67	67	rights related to students accessing mental and behavioral health
68	68	and well-being support services, including information on:
69	69	(i) parental consent guidelines and
70	70	requirements under Sections 33.003, 38.010, and 38.053;
71	71	(ii) parental access to medical records
72	72	under Section 38.0095;
73	73	(iii) coordinated health programs
74	74	available under Section 38.013;
75	75	(iv) the prohibition on the use of a
76	76	parent's refusal to consent to a psychiatric evaluation or
77	77	examination as grounds to take certain actions against a child and
78	78	the permissible actions under Section 38.016;
79	79	(v) the district's trauma-informed care
80	80	policy under Section 38.036;
81	81	(vi) the identification of health-related
82	82	concerns under Section 38.057;
83	83	(vii) educational materials provided in
84	84	accordance with a procedure developed under Section 38.351(i-1);
85	85	and
86	86	(viii) the consent required for services to
87	87	minors under Section 113.0152, Health and Safety Code.
88	88	(d) To comply with a requirement under Subsection (c)(3),
89	89	(4), or (5), a school district campus may partner with the district
90	90	to provide:
91	91	(1) training required under Subsection (c)(3);
92	92	(2) a requirement for the multitiered support system
93	93	under Subsection (c)(4); or
94	94	(3) if the campus does not have an Internet website, a
95	95	web page that meets the requirements of Subsection (c)(5).
96	96	(e) The agency shall adopt rules as necessary to administer
97	97	this section.
98	98	SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
99	99	school year.
100	100	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
101	101	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
102	102	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
103	103	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
104	104	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.