85R4855 GCB-F
 
  By: Bonnen of Galveston H.B. No. 2010
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to providing workplace safety training information for use
  in the public school curriculum.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 29.923 to read as follows:
         Sec. 29.923.  WORKPLACE SAFETY TRAINING INFORMATION. (a)  
  The agency shall 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)  A school district may 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.  This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
  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, 2017.