Bill Text: TX HB395 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public schools to use the wet bulb globe temperature to determine whether conditions are unsatisfactory for student outdoor activities due to severe heat.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB395 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB395-Introduced.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 395 | |
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| relating to requiring public schools to use the wet bulb globe | ||
| temperature to determine whether conditions are unsatisfactory for | ||
| student outdoor activities due to severe heat. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.025 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.025. USE OF WET BULB GLOBE TEMPERATURE FOR SEVERE | ||
| HEAT DETERMINATIONS. (a) In this section, "wet bulb globe | ||
| temperature" means a comprehensive measurement of environmental | ||
| conditions that accounts for ambient temperature, relative | ||
| humidity, wind, and solar radiation. | ||
| (b) Each school district and open-enrollment charter school | ||
| shall refer to the wet bulb globe temperature in determining | ||
| satisfactory or unsatisfactory conditions for outdoor activities, | ||
| including: | ||
| (1) athletic activities; | ||
| (2) recess; | ||
| (3) extracurricular activities conducted outdoors; | ||
| and | ||
| (4) any other related activities. | ||
| (c) This section does not: | ||
| (1) waive any immunity from liability of a school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school or of district or | ||
| charter school officers or employees; or | ||
| (2) create any liability for a cause of action against | ||
| a school district or open-enrollment charter school or against | ||
| district or charter school officers or employees. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2023. | ||
