By Truan                                         S.B. No. 563

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to model gang violence suppression and substance abuse

 1-3     prevention curricula.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 29.903 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 29.903.  MODEL GANG VIOLENCE SUPPRESSION AND SUBSTANCE

 1-8     ABUSE CURRICULA.  (a)  The State Board of Education, in

 1-9     collaboration with the criminal justice division of the governor's

1-10     office, shall develop model gang violence suppression and substance

1-11     abuse prevention curricula for students in grade levels two, four,

1-12     and six.

1-13           (b)  The board and the criminal justice division shall design

1-14     each model curriculum to:

1-15                 (1)  be compatible with state curriculum frameworks for

1-16     social studies and English language arts; and

1-17                 (2)  address issues concerning:

1-18                       (A)  ethnic diversity; and

1-19                       (B)  students who, under Section 29.081(d), are

1-20     considered to be at risk of dropping out of school.

1-21           (c)  The agency shall make the model curricula available to

1-22     each school district and regional education service center.

1-23           (d)  The criminal justice division shall develop and provide

1-24     for implementation of an independent method to evaluate the

 2-1     effectiveness of the model curricula.

 2-2           SECTION 2.  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.