By Davila H.B. No. 2250 74R7487 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to creating a program for students in violence prevention. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 21.104 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 21.104. NONVIOLENCE AND GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION 1-7 PROGRAM. The Central Education Agency shall develop a school-based 1-8 program to teach personal skills in nonviolence and in prevention 1-9 of gun violence to students at all grade levels. The agency shall 1-10 examine existing programs on nonviolence and prevention of gun 1-11 violence and shall seek information from law enforcement agencies, 1-12 social agencies, teachers, and other experts to be used in 1-13 developing the program. The program must include: 1-14 (1) methods to reduce injuries and deaths resulting 1-15 from the use of guns; 1-16 (2) a focus on nonviolence through decision-making 1-17 skills and conflict resolution strategies; 1-18 (3) prevention methods that address social issues 1-19 contributing to violence, such as drug abuse; and 1-20 (4) components relating to parent education and 1-21 community involvement. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.