| TO: | Honorable Florence Shapiro, Chair, Senate Committee on Education |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | HB121 by Dukes (Relating to public school policies and curriculum designed to prevent dating and domestic violence.), As Engrossed |
The bill would require local school districts to adopt and implement a dating violence policy with specified parameters. The parameters of local policies could vary among districts, and therefore, the fiscal impact to local school districts would vary accordingly.
The bill would require the Commissioner of Education to establish a Domestic Violence Prevention Pilot Project for students in grades 9 and 10 in selected school districts in Bexar, Dallas, and Harris counties. The program would provide participating school districts wtih curriculum concerning issues of domestic violence. The bill would require TEA to report the agency's activities under the pilot project, the effects of the project, and any related recommendations to the legislature. An interim report would be due by January 1, 2011; and a final report would be due by January 1, 2013.
TEA indicates that one FTE would be required to administer the pilot program and meet reporting requirements at a cost of 66,015 in FY2008 and $61,016 in each subsequent year until the expiration of the pilot. The cost of developing the curriculum for the program is estimated at $30,000 in FY2008.
The pilot project would expire January 1, 2013.
The bill would require local school districts to adopt and implement a dating violence policy with specified parameters. The parameters of local policies could vary among districts; therefore, the fiscal impact to local school districts would vary accordingly.
Selected school districts would be required to implement the curriculum adopted under the Domestic Violence Prevention Pilot Program and collect data for reporting purposes.
| Source Agencies: | 701 Central Education Agency
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, JSp, UP, JSc
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