| (a) All school districts and open-enrollment charter
schools shall provide suicide prevention training as required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC), §21.451(d), to all new school district
and open-enrollment charter school educators as a part of new employee
orientation during the 2016-2017 school year.
(b) Each subsequent school year, school districts and
open-enrollment charter schools shall provide suicide prevention training
as required by the TEC, §21.451(d), to all new school district
and open-enrollment charter school educators as a part of new employee
orientation.
(c) All school districts and open-enrollment charter
schools shall provide suicide prevention training as required by the
TEC, §21.451(d), to all currently employed school district and
open-enrollment charter school educators on or by September 30, 2016.
(d) Suicide prevention training that is required by
the TEC, §21.451(d), and was provided to existing educators by
a school district or open-enrollment charter school on or after September
1, 2013, may be used to meet the requirements of this section if the
training program is on the recommended best practice-based list maintained
by the Department of State Health Services (DSHS), in coordination
with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), or is an online program that
meets the TEA guidelines for independent review.
(e) In accordance with the Health and Safety Code, §161.325,
school districts shall maintain records that include the name of each
educator who participated in the suicide prevention training.
(f) Open-enrollment charter schools are encouraged
to maintain suicide prevention training records that include the name
of each educator who participated in the suicide prevention training.
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