By Moncrief                                            S.B. No. 160
       74R3118 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring instruction in violence prevention and
    1-3  conflict resolution procedures in public schools.
    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.  VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    1-8  EDUCATION.  (a)  A school district shall provide instruction in
    1-9  violence prevention and conflict resolution for grades 1 through
   1-10  12.
   1-11        (b)  The Central Education Agency shall:
   1-12              (1)  adopt rules specifying information that must be
   1-13  included in a district's violence prevention and conflict
   1-14  resolution program;
   1-15              (2)  develop multiple sample curricula that may be used
   1-16  by a district to comply with Subsection (a); and
   1-17              (3)  provide assistance to districts in training
   1-18  district employees to instruct students in violence prevention and
   1-19  conflict resolution.
   1-20        (c)  The specific curricula to be used by a district under
   1-21  this section shall be determined by the district's administration
   1-22  and faculty and must contain the information required by the agency
   1-23  under Subsection (b)(1).
   1-24        SECTION 2.  Section 21.104, Education Code, as added by this
    2-1  Act, applies beginning with the 1996-1997 school year.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.