85R12559 MK-D
 
  By: Dukes H.B. No. 2244
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the establishment of a workgroup to examine the
  implementation of dating violence awareness and education programs
  in public schools.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 37.0831, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsections (f), (g), and (h) to read as follows:
         (f)  The commissioner shall establish a workgroup to make
  recommendations related to ensuring and improving implementation
  of the dating violence policy required under Subsection (a) in
  middle schools, including recommendations for specific methods of
  implementing training under the policy for students, parents,
  educators, and school administrators. The workgroup must be
  composed of:
               (1)  one member from the agency;
               (2)  one member from the Texas State Teachers
  Association;
               (3)  one member from the Texas American Federation of
  Teachers;
               (4)  one member from the Association of Texas
  Professional Educators;
               (5)  one member from the Texas Association of School
  Boards;
               (6)  one member from the Texas Association of School
  Administrators;
               (7)  one member from the Texas School Counselor
  Association;
               (8)  one member from the Texas Association of Secondary
  School Principals;
               (9)  one member from the Texas School Nurses
  Organization;
               (10)  one member from the Texas School Safety Center;
               (11)  one member from the Texas High School Coaches
  Association;
               (12)  three campus safety officers;
               (13)  four members from family violence centers, as
  defined by Section 51.002, Human Resources Code, from different
  geographic regions in this state, including both rural and urban
  areas;
               (14)  one member from a statewide family violence
  advocacy organization; 
               (15)  one member from a statewide sexual assault
  advocacy organization;
               (16)  one member from a statewide advocacy organization
  that serves teenage victims of dating violence;
               (17)  one member from the statewide intake division or
  the investigation division of the Department of Family and
  Protective Services;
               (18)  one member from the Parenting and Paternity
  Awareness program in the office of the attorney general;
               (19)  one member from the family violence program in
  the Health and Human Services Commission; and
               (20)  two members from the Texas Juvenile Justice
  Department, including one member who has experience with juvenile
  probation. 
         (g)  The workgroup established under Subsection (f) shall
  report its recommendations to the legislature not later than
  September 1, 2018.
         (h)  This subsection and Subsections (f) and (g) expire
  September 1, 2018. 
         SECTION 2.  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.