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Amend CSSB 11 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 21.451(d), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
(d) The staff development:
(1) may include training in:
(A) technology;
(B) conflict resolution;
(C) discipline strategies, including classroom management, district discipline policies, and the student code of conduct adopted under Section 37.001 and Chapter 37;
(D) preventing, identifying, responding to, and reporting incidents of bullying; and
(E) digital learning;
(2) subject to Subsection (e) and to Section 21.3541 and rules adopted under that section, must include training that is evidence-based, as defined by Section 8101, Every Student Succeeds Act (20 U.S.C. Section 7801), that:
(A) relates to instruction of students with disabilities; and
(B) is designed for educators who work primarily outside the area of special education; and
(3) must include suicide prevention training that must be provided:
(A) on an annual basis, as part of a new employee orientation, to all new school district and open-enrollment charter school educators; and
(B) to existing school district and open-enrollment charter school educators at least once every five years [on a schedule adopted by the agency by rule].