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].