Bill Text: TX SB407 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reporting the number of incidents of bullying and cyberbullying in a school district and open-enrollment charter school through the Public Education Information Management System.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-09 - Referred to Education [SB407 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB407-Introduced.html
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By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 407 |
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relating to reporting the number of incidents of bullying and | ||
cyberbullying in a school district and open-enrollment charter | ||
school through the Public Education Information Management System. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 48.009, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (b-4) to read as follows: | ||
(b-4) The commissioner by rule shall require each school | ||
district and open-enrollment charter school to annually report | ||
through the Public Education Information Management System the | ||
number of reported incidents of bullying that have occurred at each | ||
campus. The commissioner's rules shall require a district or | ||
school to specify the number of incidents of bullying that included | ||
cyberbullying. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022 | ||
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, 2021. |