By: Hinojosa	S.B. No. 783
	(In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2013; February 26, 2013,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
	April 29, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 3; April 29, 2013,
	sent to printer.)
	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 783	By:  Seliger

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to inclusion in school district improvement plans of
	policies to prevent dating violence and bullying.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 11.252, Education Code,
	is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Each school district shall have a district improvement
	plan that is developed, evaluated, and revised annually, in
	accordance with district policy, by the superintendent with the
	assistance of the district-level committee established under
	Section 11.251.  The purpose of the district improvement plan is to
	guide district and campus staff in the improvement of student
	performance for all student groups in order to attain state
	standards in respect to the student achievement indicators adopted
	under Section 39.053.  The district improvement plan must include
	provisions for:
	(1)  a comprehensive needs assessment addressing
	district student performance on the student achievement
	indicators, and other appropriate measures of performance, that are
	disaggregated by all student groups served by the district,
	including categories of ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sex, and
	populations served by special programs, including students in
	special education programs under Subchapter A, Chapter 29;
	(2)  measurable district performance objectives for
	all appropriate student achievement indicators for all student
	populations, including students in special education programs
	under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, and other measures of student
	performance that may be identified through the comprehensive needs
	assessment;
	(3)  strategies for improvement of student performance
	that include:
	(A)  instructional methods for addressing the
	needs of student groups not achieving their full potential;
	(B)  methods for addressing the needs of students
	for special programs, including:
	(i)  suicide prevention programs, in
	accordance with Subchapter O-1, Chapter 161, Health and Safety
	Code, which includes a parental or guardian notification procedure;
	(ii)  conflict resolution programs;
	(iii)  violence prevention programs; and
	(iv)  dyslexia treatment programs;
	(C)  dropout reduction;
	(D)  integration of technology in instructional
	and administrative programs;
	(E)  discipline management;
	(F)  staff development for professional staff of
	the district;
	(G)  career education to assist students in
	developing the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary for a
	broad range of career opportunities; and
	(H)  accelerated education;
	(4)  strategies for providing to middle school, junior
	high school, and high school students, those students' teachers and
	counselors, and those students' parents information about:
	(A)  higher education admissions and financial
	aid opportunities;
	(B)  the TEXAS grant program and the Teach for
	Texas grant program established under Chapter 56;
	(C)  the need for students to make informed
	curriculum choices to be prepared for success beyond high school;
	[and]
	(D)  sources of information on higher education
	admissions and financial aid; and
	(E)  the district's dating violence policy
	adopted under Section 37.0831 and the district's bully prevention
	policy under Section 37.0832;
	(5)  resources needed to implement identified
	strategies;
	(6)  staff responsible for ensuring the accomplishment
	of each strategy;
	(7)  timelines for ongoing monitoring of the
	implementation of each improvement strategy;
	(8)  formative evaluation criteria for determining
	periodically whether strategies are resulting in intended
	improvement of student performance; [and]
	(9)  the policy under Section 38.0041 addressing sexual
	abuse and other maltreatment of children; and
	(10)  carrying out the elements of the district's
	dating violence policy required under Section 37.0831 at each
	middle school, junior high school, and high school in the district.
	SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 37.0831, Education Code,
	is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Each school district shall:
	(1)  adopt [and implement] a dating violence policy to
	be included in the district improvement plan under Section 11.252;
	and
	(2)  implement the policy at each middle school, junior
	high school, and high school in the district.
	SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
	school year.
	SECTION 4.  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, 2013.
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