Amend HB 3285 (senate committee printing) by inserting the following appropriately numbered sections and renumbering the remaining sections accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 51.9362 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.9362. OVERDOSE AWARENESS TRAINING FOR RESIDENTIAL ADVISORS AND STUDENT ORGANIZATION OFFICERS. (a) In this section:
(1) "Public or private institution of higher education" includes an "institution of higher education" and a "private or independent institution of higher education," as those terms are defined by Section 61.003.
(2) "Residential advisor" means a student who is employed by a public or private institution of higher education to serve in an advisory capacity for students living in a residential facility.
(3) "Residential facility" means a residence used exclusively for housing or boarding students or faculty of a public or private institution of higher education.
(4) "Student organization" includes any organization that is composed mostly of students enrolled at a public or private institution of higher education and that:
(A) is registered with the institution;
(B) receives student organization resource fee revenues or other funding from the institution; or
(C) is otherwise recognized as a student organization by the institution.
(b) A public or private institution of higher education that imposes any mandatory training requirements on residential advisors or officers of student organizations must ensure that overdose awareness and appropriate response training is included with that training.
SECTION ____. Section 51.9362, Education Code, as added by this Act applies beginning with training required for the 2019-2020 academic year.