Bill Text: TX SB1309 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to state requirements for teacher training and student instruction regarding certain subjects in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-09 - Left pending in committee [SB1309 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1309-Introduced.html
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By: Hall | S.B. No. 1309 |
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relating to state requirements for teacher training and student | ||
instruction regarding certain subjects in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.451, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
(h) Notwithstanding any other law, a school district may not | ||
be required to provide staff training regarding: | ||
(1) Internet safety; | ||
(2) teen dating violence; | ||
(3) bullying; | ||
(4) student parenthood; | ||
(5) child abuse; or | ||
(6) school bus transportation safety. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 28.0026 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 28.0026. INSTRUCTION NOT REQUIRED. Notwithstanding | ||
any other law, a school district may not be required to provide | ||
student instruction regarding: | ||
(1) Internet safety; | ||
(2) teen dating violence; | ||
(3) bullying; | ||
(4) student parenthood; | ||
(5) child abuse; or | ||
(6) school bus transportation safety. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 34.008(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) A mass transit authority contracting under this section | ||
for daily transportation of pre-primary, primary, or secondary | ||
students to or from school shall conduct, in a manner and on a | ||
schedule approved by the county or district school board, the | ||
following education programs: | ||
(1) a program to inform the public that public school | ||
students will be riding on the authority's or company's buses; and | ||
(2) a program to educate the drivers of the buses to be | ||
used under the contract of the special needs and problems of public | ||
school students riding on the buses[ |
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SECTION 4. Section 37.001(a), Education Code, as amended by | ||
Chapters 487 (S.B. 1541) and 1409 (S.B. 1114), Acts of the 83rd | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, is reenacted and amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The board of trustees of an independent school district | ||
shall, with the advice of its district-level committee established | ||
under Subchapter F, Chapter 11, adopt a student code of conduct for | ||
the district. The student code of conduct must be posted and | ||
prominently displayed at each school campus or made available for | ||
review at the office of the campus principal. In addition to | ||
establishing standards for student conduct, the student code of | ||
conduct must: | ||
(1) specify the circumstances, in accordance with this | ||
subchapter, under which a student may be removed from a classroom, | ||
campus, disciplinary alternative education program, or vehicle | ||
owned or operated by the district; | ||
(2) specify conditions that authorize or require a | ||
principal or other appropriate administrator to transfer a student | ||
to a disciplinary alternative education program; | ||
(3) outline conditions under which a student may be | ||
suspended as provided by Section 37.005 or expelled as provided by | ||
Section 37.007; | ||
(4) specify that consideration will be given, as a | ||
factor in each decision concerning suspension, removal to a | ||
disciplinary alternative education program, expulsion, or | ||
placement in a juvenile justice alternative education program, | ||
regardless of whether the decision concerns a mandatory or | ||
discretionary action, to: | ||
(A) self-defense; | ||
(B) intent or lack of intent at the time the | ||
student engaged in the conduct; | ||
(C) a student's disciplinary history; or | ||
(D) a disability that substantially impairs the | ||
student's capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of the student's | ||
conduct; | ||
(5) provide guidelines for setting the length of a | ||
term of: | ||
(A) a removal under Section 37.006; and | ||
(B) an expulsion under Section 37.007; | ||
(6) address the notification of a student's parent or | ||
guardian of a violation of the student code of conduct committed by | ||
the student that results in suspension, removal to a disciplinary | ||
alternative education program, or expulsion; | ||
(7) prohibit bullying, harassment, and making hit | ||
lists and ensure that district employees enforce those | ||
prohibitions; and | ||
(8) provide, as appropriate for students at each grade | ||
level, methods, including options, for: | ||
(A) managing students in the classroom, on school | ||
grounds, and on a vehicle owned or operated by the district; | ||
(B) disciplining students; and | ||
(C) preventing and intervening in student | ||
discipline problems[ |
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SECTION 5. Section 37.0831(b), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) A dating violence policy must: | ||
(1) include a definition of dating violence that | ||
includes the intentional use of physical, sexual, verbal, or | ||
emotional abuse by a person to harm, threaten, intimidate, or | ||
control another person in a dating relationship, as defined by | ||
Section 71.0021, Family Code; and | ||
(2) address safety planning, enforcement of | ||
protective orders, school-based alternatives to protective orders, | ||
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SECTION 6. The following provisions of the Education Code | ||
are repealed: | ||
(1) Sections 28.002(p), (p-2), (p-3), (p-4), and (s); | ||
and | ||
(2) Section 38.004(b). | ||
SECTION 7. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 8. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |