Bill Text: TX SB945 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to drug or alcohol overdose awareness and response training for residential advisors and officers of student organizations at public or private institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB945 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB945-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Watson | S.B. No. 945 | |
| (Turner of Tarrant) | ||
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| relating to drug or alcohol overdose awareness and response | ||
| training for residential advisors and officers of student | ||
| organizations at public or private institutions of higher | ||
| education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.9362 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9362. DRUG AND ALCOHOL AWARENESS TRAINING FOR | ||
| RESIDENTIAL ADVISORS AND STUDENT ORGANIZATION OFFICERS. (a) In | ||
| this section: | ||
| (1) "Public or private institution of higher | ||
| education" includes an "institution of higher education" and a | ||
| "private or independent institution of higher education," as those | ||
| terms are defined by Section 61.003. | ||
| (2) "Residential advisor" means a student who is | ||
| employed by a public or private institution of higher education to | ||
| serve in an advisory capacity for students living in a residential | ||
| facility. | ||
| (3) "Residential facility" means a residence used | ||
| exclusively for housing or boarding students or faculty of a public | ||
| or private institution of higher education. | ||
| (4) "Student organization" includes any organization | ||
| that is composed mostly of students enrolled at a public or private | ||
| institution of higher education and that: | ||
| (A) is registered with the institution; | ||
| (B) receives student organization resource fee | ||
| revenues or other funding from the institution; or | ||
| (C) is otherwise recognized as a student | ||
| organization by the institution. | ||
| (b) A public or private institution of higher education that | ||
| imposes any mandatory training requirements on residential | ||
| advisors or officers of student organizations must ensure that drug | ||
| and alcohol overdose awareness and appropriate response training is | ||
| included with that training. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with training | ||
| required for the 2019-2020 academic year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2019. | ||
