Bill Text: TX SB1738 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to an education and training program on interacting with and supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities for certain public transportation vehicle operators.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-10 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1738 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1738-Comm_Sub.html
By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 1738 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2019; March 14, 2019, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; | ||
May 8, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, | ||
Nays 0; May 8, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to an education and training program on interacting with | ||
and supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental | ||
disabilities for certain public transportation vehicle operators. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 451, Transportation Code, | ||
is amended by adding Section 451.114 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 451.114. REQUIRED EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM ON | ||
INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: | ||
CERTAIN AUTHORITIES. (a) This section applies only to an | ||
authority created before 1980 in which the principal municipality | ||
has a population of less than 1.9 million. | ||
(b) An authority shall establish an education and training | ||
program on interacting with and supporting individuals with | ||
intellectual and developmental disabilities for employees of the | ||
authority who operate vehicles used to provide public | ||
transportation services for the authority. The program must | ||
include instruction relating to: | ||
(1) identifying and communicating with individuals | ||
with intellectual or developmental disabilities; and | ||
(2) assisting an individual with an intellectual or | ||
developmental disability to safely enter and exit a vehicle used to | ||
provide public transportation services. | ||
(c) An authority, or a person with whom the authority | ||
contracts, may not allow an employee to operate a vehicle used to | ||
provide public transportation services for the authority unless the | ||
employee has completed the training program established by the | ||
authority under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2020, a rapid transit | ||
authority shall establish the training program as required by | ||
Section 451.114, Transportation Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of | ||
this section, this Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
(b) Section 451.114(c), Transportation Code, as added by | ||
this Act, takes effect September 1, 2020. | ||
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