Honorable Dan Patrick, Chair, Senate Committee on Education
FROM:
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
SB783 by Hinojosa (Relating to inclusion in school district improvement plans of policies to prevent dating violence and bullying.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
The bill would require district improvement plans to include strategies for providing information about the district's dating violence and bully prevention policies and carrying out elements of the dating violence policy at each middle school, junior high school, and high school in the district. The bill would require districts to implement a dating violence policy at each middle school, junior high school, and high school.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated. School districts are currently required to include a dating violence policy in district improvement plans. The bill clarifies that information and implementation of the dating violence policy and the bully prevention policy would be provided at middle, junior high, and high schools in the district.