Region 10 Compliance Chart for Student Support Co-op
Training / Citation / Audience / Notes / Resources/TimelinesSexual Abuse and Other Maltreatment of Children
Mental Health / TEC Title 2, Subtitle G, Chapter 38 Sec.38.0041
Family Code Chapter 261
2009 the Texas Legislature passed Jenna’s Law, calling for each public school district to adopt and implement policy aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.
SB 471 amendments require child abuse and neglect training and policies in schools
Senate Bill 460 / Requires ALL district and open-enrollment charter school employees participate in a training to increase awareness about prevention techniques and recognition of sexual abuse and other forms of child maltreatment. Each school district and open-enrollment charter school must also maintain records that include the name of each district or charter school staff member who participates in the training.
Adopt and implement a policy addressing sexual abuse and other maltreatment of children, to be included in the district improvement plan and any informational handbook provided to students and parents.
Training Should include:
Characteristics, and identification of Mental and Emotional disorders
Effective Strategies for teaching and intervening with student with mental or emotional health disorders.
De-escalation, and Positive Behavior Intervention / Training must provide:
factors indicating a child is at-risk for sexual abuse or other maltreatment; likely warning signs indicating a child may be a victim of sexual abuse or other maltreatment; internal procedures for seeking assistance for a child who is at-risk for sexual abuse or other maltreatment, including referral to a school counselor, a social worker, or another mental health professional; techniques for reducing a child's risk of sexual abuse or other maltreatment;
Requires each school district and open-enrollment charter school maintain records that include the name of each district or charter school staff member who participated in the training.
May 31st All remaining School staff
2015-2016: All new employees
School district must maintain records all participants in the training.
Training is done annual / Poster: All school campuses are required to post in at least one high-traffic area, in both English and Spanish, a poster, at student eye-level, with information that includes the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) Abuse hotline telephone number, instructions to call 911 and directions to the www.txabusehotline.org. A poster developed to meet the requirements can be found at: www.onewithcourage.org/take-action/for-educators/
Timeline: 2014 - 2015
September 30, 2014 All teachers K-5 Campus Principals, and Bus Drivers
Dec. 31, 2014 All remaining teachers Campus Principals and Bus Drivers
May 31st All remaining School staff
2015-2016: All new employees
Available at Region 10 on-line and face to face to CISS Coop member school:
Child Abuse and Maltreatment of Children online course
Darkness to Light Stewards of Children – online and face to face
Mental Health on line course at Region 10 in the near future.
Kognito is a good resource and Free
Mental Health America Training face to face every month at Region 10.
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention / Health and Safety Code, Section 3, Chapter 161, Section 161.325 (b) (c-1)
HB 1386
HB 2186 / Teachers, counselors, nurses, administrators, and other appropriate staff.
New teachers must have it in new teacher orientation and existing school district will later get a schedule by TEA ,
Training is done annually
All workers that interact regularly with students need to be trained.
New teachers must have it in new teacher orientation and existing school district will later get a schedule by TEA ,
Training is done annually / Training to recognize students at risk of committing suicide and intervention strategies. Required to provide training at an elementary school campus only to extent funding and programs are available. If provided staff must participate at least once. Records must be maintained.
Implement a Suicide Prevention program
Training:
Recognizing students at risk, recognize early warning signs, intervene effectively, procedures and policy for notice to parents and referrals for help, what to do when identified, reporting mechanism for students,
Staff Development MAY include technology, conflict resolution, discipline strategies, classroom management, / Available at Region 10 as a face to face workshop, or an online course.
Texas
Education Agency, shall provide and annually update a list of
recommended best practice-based early mental health intervention
and suicide prevention programs
Policy and Procedures must be in student handbook, district improvement plan,
Dating Violence
SB 674
Mental Health
Training and certification / TEC, Title 2, Subtitle G, Chapter 37, Sec. 37.0831
House Bill 121
Senate Bill 674
For those getting a degree in education. / Training for teachers and administrators and awareness education for students and parents in grades 9-12.
This legislation makes changes to requirements for minimum academic qualifications for any educator certificate that requires a bachelor’s degree to also require persons to receive training in mental health, youth suicide, and substance abuse. Training materials must be selected from the list of recommended best practice-based programs that is provided by the Department of State Health Services, in coordination with the TEA. / Each school district shall adopt and implement a dating violence policy to be included in the district improvement plan under Section 11.252.
(b)A dating violence policy must:
(1)include a definition of dating violence that includes the intentional use of physical, sexual, verbal, or emotional abuse by a person to harm, threaten, intimidate, or control another person in a dating relationship, as defined by Section 71.0021, Family Code; and
(2)address safety planning, enforcement of protective orders, school-based alternatives to protective orders,
Change from current law: Under current law, requirements for minimum academic qualifications for a certificate require persons to receive training in the detection of students with mental or emotional disorders. The instruction for this training must be developed by a panel of experts in the diagnosis and treatment of mental or emotional disorders who are appointed by the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC).
The bill repeals a requirement that the training be developed by a panel of experts.
“ / Available as an online course on Region 10 website, or a face to face workshop.
Mental Health First Aide is a great resource for this training however it is a 2 days training.
Child Abuse Prevention and Reporting / TEC Title 2, Subtitle G, Chapter 38 Sec.38.004.
TAC, Title 19, Chapter 61, Section 61.1051 / School staff
Each school district shall provide child abuse anti-victimization programs in elementary and secondary schools. / The agency shall develop a policy governing the child abuse reports required by Chapter 261, Family Code, of school districts and their employees. The policy must provide for cooperation with law enforcement child abuse investigations without the consent of the child's parents if necessary, including investigations by the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. Each school district shall adopt the policy.
Training is done in addition to the Child Sexual Abuse and Maltreatment of Children / Available at Region 10 on-line and face to face to CISS Coop member schools.
“Let's Talk About It - Sexual Abuse and Maltreatment of Children”
Available at Region 10 on-line for ALL Region 10 schools:
“Certification and Compliance
Legal Issues: FERPA, Child Abuse Reporting and Copyright Law”
Sexual Harassment
Sexual Harassment Training Required: / Sec. 37.083. Tx Education Code
Discipline Management Programs; Sexual Harassment Policies
Sexual Harassment Training Required:
The Texas Employment Discrimination Law requires that all state employees receive employment discrimination training, including coverage of sexual harassment issues, within thirty days of commencement of employment and every two years.
See Tex. Lab. Code. § 21.010. / Defined by the local discipline management plan, likely teachers, aides, bus drivers, security personnel, coaches / Each school district shall adopt and implement a discipline management program to be included in the district improvement plan under Section 11.252.The program must provide for prevention of and education concerning unwanted physical or verbal aggression, sexual harassment, and other forms of bullying in school, on school grounds, and in school vehicles.
/ Online course at Region 10 on Sexual Harassment will be updated very soon!
Region 10 offers a Face to face sexual Harassment.
Bully Prevention in Student Code of Conduct / TEC, Title 2, Subtitle G, Chapter 37, Section 37.001
TEC, Title 2, Subtitle G, Chapter 37, Section 37.0832
TEC, Title 2, Subtitle G, Chapter 25, Section 25.0342 / Staff training designed to communicate standards for student conduct including prohibiting bullying, harassment, and making hit lists and ensuring that district employees enforce those prohibitions
Student training to provide, as appropriate at each grade level, methods, including options, for managing students in the classroom and school grounds to prevent bullying, harassment and making hit lists / Districts need to incorporate in their discipline management programs provisions for prevention of and education concerning unwanted physical or verbal aggression, sexual harassment, and other forms of bullying.
Districts must develop a policy to include prevention, intervention, awareness and prohibiting retaliation of victim or bystander.
Districts must establish a procedure for notifying parents of a bullying incident within a reasonable amount of time. / Available on-line and face to face to CISS Coop member schools.
Conflict Resolution / TEC, Title 2, Subtitle D, Chapter 21, Sec 21.451 / Staff Development Requirements - As determined by district-level decision-making process / Part of a list of identified staff development options open to consideration including discipline management strategies, bullying, and technology. / Available at Region 10 face to face to CISS Coop member schools.
Use of an automated external defibrillator / TEC. Chapter 22, Sec 22.902
TEC, Title 2, Subtitle G, Chapter 38 Section 38.017
Health and Safety / School nurse, assistant school nurse, athletic coach or sponsor, physical education instructor, marching band director, cheerleading coach, other school employee specified by the Commissioner and student athletic trainer / Must receive and maintain certification. School districts to make training available to employees and volunteers annually. / Annual training for trainers who receive a certification to be able to use the defibrillator.
Concussion Training / TEC, Chapter 38, Subchapter D, Section 38.154(c) House bill 2038
Called Natosha law / Each member of the concussion oversight team. / Training must be from an approved provider and must be taken once every two years and include the evaluation, treatment, and oversight of concussions. / Online Course through Region 10.org
Illegal Steroid Use / TEC, Chapter 33, Section 33.091 / Each district employee who serves as an athletic coach at or above the 7th grade for an extracurricular athletic activity. / Health effects of steroid use.
Bloodborne Pathogens
Bloodborn Pathogens / Occupational Exposure to Blood borne Pathogens Standard (29 CFR 1910.1030)
TAC, Title 25,
Chapter 96
Health & Safety Code, Title 2, Subtitle D, Chapter 81 / Texas public school districts are required to implement blood borne pathogen exposure control plans.
Employees having "reasonably anticipated" exposure to blood or OPIM through skin, eye, mucous membrane, or broken skin by: (needlesticks, human bites, cuts, abrasions) that result from the performance of an employee's job duties.
Employees expected as part of their job duties to render first aid or medical assistance are covered by the requirements of the standard. / The standard excludes employees who perform unanticipated "Good Samaritan" acts; e.g. one employee may assist another who has a nosebleed or is bleeding as result of a fall. This would not be considered an occupational exposure unless the employee who provides assistance is expected to render medical assistance as one of his/her job duties. / Available at Region 10 on-line to ALL Region 10 schools and updated very soon.
Certification and Compliance:
“Bloodborne Pathogens”
Positive and proactive behavior management / TAC, Chapter 103, Subchapter CC, Rule §103.1201 / DAEP staff / Must target prevention and intervention. Annual. / Staff members Job: district to employ a truancy prevention facilitator or juvenile case manager to implement the truancy prevention measures and to meet at least annually to discuss effective truancy prevention measures with a case manager or other individual designated by a truancy court or, alternatively, to designate an employee to perform those duties
Commissioner will adopt rules for the Truancy Prevention.
Health TEKS
Misuse of Prescription Drugs / SB 968 / In adopting TEKS for health education, the SBOE must adopt TEKS that address the dangers, causes, consequences, signs, symptoms, and treatment of nonmedical use of prescription drugs.
TEA must compile a list of evidence-based prescription drug misuse awareness programs. A school district may choose a program from the TEA-compiled list to use in the district’s middle school, junior high school, and high school health curriculum. / This bill would require the SBOE to add standards specifically related to the dangers, causes, consequences, signs, symptoms, and treatment of nonmedical use of prescription drugs.
Disciplinary Procedures / TEC, Chapter 37, Section 37.0181 / Principal or other appropriate administrator who oversees student discipline / Training on the distinction between a discipline management technique under Section 37.002(a) and Section 37.002(b). Training must be received every three years. / Available under administrative leadership in Region 10 online courses Chapter 37: Discipline law and order.
E-Cigarettes not allowable in school / SB 97
Amends Sections 28.004(k) and 38.006, Education Code. Amends Sections 161.081(3) and (4); 161.082(a), (b), and (d), and adds 161.081(1-a), Health and Safety Code. / This legislation prohibits the sale or distribution of electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, to persons younger than 18 years of age. / This definition is also added to the Texas Education Code, Chapter 38, Health and Safety. It also prohibits the possession, purchase, consumption or acceptance of e-cigarettes by an individual under the age of 18. / A school district must publish in the student handbook and post on the district’s Internet website whether the district has adopted and enforces policies and procedures that prescribe penalties for use of e-cigarettes.
College and Career Readiness / HB 18
Adds Sections 28.015, 28.016, 33.009, 51.3062(u), 130.008(g) and (h) and amends Sections 7.0561(b), (c), (d), and (j), and 28.009(b), Education Code. Amends §303.003(b-2), Labor Code / Each school district must provide instruction to students in grade seven or eight in preparing for high school, college, and a career. The instruction must include information regarding the following:
• Creation of a high school personal graduation plan
• Distinguished level of achievement
• Each endorsement
• College readiness standards
• Potential career choices and the education needed to enter those careers / The Center for Teaching and Learning must develop an online instructional program that districts may use to provide the instruction in preparing for high school, college, and a career required to be provided to students in grades seven or eight.
Diplomas / HB 181 / The requirement that school districts and charter schools print endorsements and performance acknowledgments on high school diplomas is removed. Districts must still include this information on high school academic achievement records/transcripts.
Graduation and EOC information regarding retaining. / SB 149
Adds new Sections 28.025(c-6), 28.0258, 28.0259, 12.104(b-2), 39.025(a-2) and (a-3), Education Code
/ To be eligible to graduate and receive a high school diploma, a student must successfully complete the course requirements required by the State Board of Education for the foundation high school program or the minimum high school program (MHSP),
This bill would create a process by which students could earn a high school diploma without meeting all of the testing requirements. / Each school district and open-enrollment charter school is required to establish an individual graduation committee for each 11th or 12th grade student who fails to comply with the EOC assessment performance requirements for not more than two courses.
You can find information in detail on SB 149 at www.region10.org / The individual graduation committee must consist of
• the principal or his/her designee;
• the teacher of the course for which the student did not pass the EOC assessment;
• the department chair or lead teacher supervising the teacher of the course; and
• as applicable, the student’s parent or guardian; a designated advocate; or the student, at the student’s option, if the student is at least 18 years old or is an emancipated minor.
Behavior coordinator for student removal. / SB 107
Adds Section 37.0012 and amends Sections 37.002(a), 37.007(a) and 37.009(a) and (f), Education Code / The bill requires a person at each campus to be designated as the campus behavior coordinator who will be the primary individual responsible for maintaining student discipline and addressing issues related to removing a student from class. The bill would establish the responsibilities of the campus behavior coordinator which includes notification to the parent or guardian if a student was removed.
HB 10 Human Trafficking / HB 10 / This legislation requires TEA include reports related to trafficking of a child in the policy governing reports of child abuse / This bill adds the requirement that reports of child abuse or neglect include reports related to trafficking of a child. / .
Bills to look up in detail, that are long and have many sections, and keep in consideration: