Texas Legislation

The Texas 82nd legislature has passed House Bill 1386 (HB 1386), which requires the Texas Department of Health, in coordination with the Texas Education Agency, to provide a list of recommended best practice-based early mental health intervention and suicide prevention programs for implementation in public elementary, junior, middle, and high schools. Click on the link below to download a copy of the bill.

 

Not later than January 1, 2013, the department shall submit a report to the legislature relating to the development of the list of programs and the implementation in school districts of selected programs by school districts that choose to implement programs. This subsection expires September 1, 2013.

 

SECTIONA4.AASection 11.252(a), Education Code, is amended to

read as follows:

 

(a)AAEach school district shall have a district improvement

a plan that is developed, evaluated, and revised annually, in accordance with district policy, by the superintendent with the

http://www.sccenter.org/pdf/Texas-Bill-1386.pdf

 

Suicide and Crisis Center

approx. 56.7 miles away

Dallas, TX 75204
P: (214) 824-7023
visit website 

Email what violations you find in the local policy.

 (Legal) a policy is an example set by Texas Education Agency of what the (local) requires implementing.

This will be done by Monday, June 29th, 2014.