By: N. Gonzalez of El Paso H.B. No. 1454

(Senate Sponsor - Rodriguez)

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013; May 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to events to educate students about Type 2 diabetes in certain school districts.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 38.028 to read as follows:

Sec. 38.028. TYPE 2 DIABETES PREVENTION AND AWARENESS PROGRAM. (a) This section applies only to a school district with a student enrollment of at least 60,000 that is located in a county on the international border with a population of 800,000 or more.

(b) A school district to which this section applies shall hold an event once each school year in which local nonprofit diabetes prevention organizations visit each school campus to educate students in the third through 12th grades about Type 2 diabetes prevention and awareness.

SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 school year.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2013.

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