| 1 | 1 | | By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 800 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed January 15, 2025; February 7, 2025, |
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| 3 | 3 | | read first time and referred to Committee on Education K-16; |
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| 4 | 4 | | April 24, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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| 5 | 5 | | Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 24, 2025, |
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| 6 | 6 | | sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 8 | 8 | | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 800 By: Hinojosa of Nueces |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 14 | 14 | | AN ACT |
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| 15 | 15 | | relating to a public institution of higher education's orientation |
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| 16 | 16 | | on the institution's sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating |
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| 17 | 17 | | violence, and stalking policy. |
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| 18 | 18 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. Section 51.282(c), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 20 | 20 | | read as follows: |
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| 21 | 21 | | (c) Each postsecondary educational institution shall |
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| 22 | 22 | | require each entering freshman or undergraduate transfer student to |
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| 23 | 23 | | attend an orientation on the institution's sexual harassment, |
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| 24 | 24 | | sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking policy before or |
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| 25 | 25 | | during the first semester or term in which the student is enrolled |
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| 26 | 26 | | at the institution. The institution shall establish the format and |
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| 27 | 27 | | content of the orientation. The orientation: |
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| 28 | 28 | | (1) may be provided online; and |
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| 29 | 29 | | (2) must include: |
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| 30 | 30 | | (A) a video that states: |
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| 31 | 31 | | (i) the names of the institution's Title IX |
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| 32 | 32 | | coordinators and deputy coordinators; |
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| 33 | 33 | | (ii) the location and contact information |
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| 34 | 34 | | of the institution's Title IX office; and |
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| 35 | 35 | | (iii) the services provided by the |
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| 36 | 36 | | institution's Title IX office; and |
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| 37 | 37 | | (B) the statements described by Subsection |
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| 38 | 38 | | (a)(1)(E). |
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| 39 | 39 | | SECTION 2. Section 51.282(c), Education Code, as amended by |
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| 40 | 40 | | this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year. |
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| 41 | 41 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 42 | 42 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 43 | 43 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 44 | 44 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 45 | 45 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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| 46 | 46 | | * * * * * |
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