BILL ANALYSIS

 

 

Senate Research Center	H.B. 2010
85R4855 GCB-F	By: Bonnen, Greg (Taylor, Larry)
	Education
	5/16/2017
	Engrossed

 

 

 

AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

 

High school students and graduates not planning to pursue higher education often enter the workplace with little to no training in workplace safety. As consequence, each year roughly sixty thousand workers under the age of eighteen are sent to the emergency room for job-related injuries.

 

H.B. 2010 will allow school districts to develop a workplace safety training program, encouraging educators to include workplace safety training information in the curriculum of appropriate courses for students enrolled in grades seven through twelve.

 

H.B. 2010 amends current law relating to providing workplace safety training information for use in the public school curriculum.

 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

 

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.

 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

 

SECTION 1. Amends Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, by adding Section 29.923, as follows:

 

Sec. 29.923. WORKPLACE SAFETY TRAINING INFORMATION. (a) Requires the Texas Education Agency to collect and make available to a school district on request information regarding workplace safety training that may be included as part of the district's curriculum.

 

(b) Authorizes a school district to develop a workplace safety program that provides educators access to the information described by Subsection (a) and encourages educators to include the workplace safety training information in the curriculum of appropriate courses provided to students enrolled in grades 7 through 12.

 

SECTION 2. Provides that this Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 school year.

 

SECTION 3. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2017.