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.