By Moncrief S.B. No. 159
74R3117 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to requiring instruction in public schools in the skills
1-3 required in parenting.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 21.104 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 21.104. PARENTING SKILLS EDUCATION. (a) A school
1-8 district shall provide instruction in the skills required in
1-9 parenting for grades 1 through 12.
1-10 (b) The Central Education Agency shall:
1-11 (1) adopt rules specifying information that must be
1-12 included in a district's parenting skills education program;
1-13 (2) develop multiple sample curricula that may be used
1-14 by a district to comply with Subsection (a); and
1-15 (3) provide assistance to districts in training
1-16 district employees to instruct students in the skills required in
1-17 parenting.
1-18 (c) The specific curricula to be used by a district under
1-19 this section shall be determined by the district's administration
1-20 and faculty and must contain the information required by the agency
1-21 under Subsection (b)(1).
1-22 SECTION 2. Section 21.104, Education Code, as added by this
1-23 Act, applies beginning with the 1996-1997 school year.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.