S.B. No. 800

AN ACT

relating to a public institution of higher education's sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking resources and policy orientation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 51.282(c), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(c) Each postsecondary educational institution shall require each entering freshman or undergraduate transfer student to attend an orientation on the institution's sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking policy before or during the first semester or term in which the student is enrolled at the institution. The institution shall establish the format and content of the orientation. The orientation:

(1) may be provided online; and

(2) must include:

(A) a video that states:

(i) the names of the institution's Title IX coordinators and deputy coordinators;

(ii) the location and contact information of the institution's Title IX office;

(iii) the services provided by the institution's Title IX office;

(iv) how to report a sexual assault to the institution;

(v) information regarding the crime victims' compensation program; and

(vi) a list of local community and statewide organizations that provide support services to survivors of sexual assault; and

(B) the statements described by Subsection (a)(1)(E).

SECTION 2. The heading to Section 51.91941, Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 51.91941. SUICIDE PREVENTION AND SEXUAL ASSAULT INFORMATION REQUIRED ON STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARD.

SECTION 3. Section 51.91941(b), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) Each student identification card issued by an institution of higher education:

(1) must have printed on the card the contact information for:

(A) the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline; [and]

(B) the Crisis Text Line; and

(C) the National Sexual Assault Hotline; and

(2) may have printed on the card the contact information for:

(A) the campus police department or security for the campus at which the student to whom the card is issued regularly attends classes or, if the campus does not have a campus police department or security, a local nonemergency police contact;

(B) the campus health clinic for the campus at which the student to whom the card is issued regularly attends classes or, if the campus does not have a health clinic, a local health clinic; and

(C) a local suicide prevention hotline, if available.

SECTION 4. Section 51.282(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year.

SECTION 5. Section 51.91941(b), Education Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a student identification card issued on or after the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 6. 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, 2025.

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President of the Senate Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 800 passed the Senate on April 30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________ Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 800 passed the House, with amendments, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 94, Nays 38, two present not voting.

______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

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Date

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Governor