This bill would establish full-day pre-Kindergarten for all four-year old children and three-year-old children who are vulnerable or are the child of certain public servants. The TCCB supports this bill which will assist children aging out of foster care and helps prevent human trafficking. This bill waives parental consent for personal IDs for children in foster care, homeless children, or unaccompanied minors. The TCCB supports this bill because it improves the safety of school environments. This bill would increase training for public school employees reading sexual abuse, trafficking, and maltreatment of disabled children. The TCCB supports this bill to provide an increased understanding of Texas' water availability. This bill requires the state climatologist to publish a biennial study on changes in the weather and water availability in Texas. The TCCB supports this bill to assist young people who have aged out of foster car and are seeking higher education. This bill establishes a college liaison and priority access to student housing assistance for college students who were at some point homeless youth or in the foster care system. The TCCB supports this bill which ensures continuity of healthcare for children adopted from foster care. This bill allows children who have been adopted from foster care to maintain their enrollment in Medicaid managed care after adoption. The TCCB supports this bill to provide an increased understanding of minors in the state's care. This bill requires the state to collect data about unaccompanied migrant children who reside in a facility licensed by the state. The TCCB supports bill to improve communications and planning for disaster response. This bill allows county commissioners to meet via phone in open or closed meetings when there is a declared disaster for the purpose of disaster response and emergency conditions. The TCCB supports this bill to increase support and education for youth aging out of foster care. This bill adds instruction on filing taxes, obtaining insurance, and civic engagement to transitional living service programs for youth aging out of foster care. The TCCB supports this bill because it would help ensure quality housing for migrant and seasonal farm-workers and their families. This bill would publish a study about temporary migrant labor housing facilities, which was last studied in 2006. The TCCB supports this bill because it will enable resident to prepare locally as well as triggering notification to coordinate support from unaffected areas of the state.
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This bill creates a statewide disaster alert system that allows residents to register to receive texts, emails, and reverse 9-1-1 calls in addition to traditional TV, radio, and dynamic message signs when there is a disaster in any part of the state. The TCCB supports this bill to increase access to health and healthcare, including mental health.
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This bill requires that a local mental health authority employ a non-physician mental health professional to serve as a mental health and substance use resource for school districts located in a region served by a regional health service center. Under this bill, public schools must submit to TSSC a "multihazard emergency operations plan" designed to ensure effective response in an emergency. Under current law, the Texas School Safety Center (TSSC) at Texas State University provides public schools research, training, and technical assistance to help prevent school violence.
The TCCB supports this bill to ensure that babies are given medical care to preserve their lives. This bill creates penalties for physicians who fail to render aid, allowing a baby to die after a being born alive after a failed abortion. The TCCB supports this bill because it strengthens anti-trafficking laws by adding language on coercion and rehabilitation programs, protects victims of trafficking in trials and investigations, tightens regulations on massage establishments and schools and masseuses, and discourages unlawful activities on commercial properties. The TCCB supports this bill to improve coordination after disasters. This bill establishes a disaster recovery task force for long-term recovery after disasters. The TCCB supports this bill to expand educational opportunities for all Texas children through student-centered school funding that is responsive to demographics. It also provides funding for educators who help students succeed, as well as phases out several system-centered funding elements. Importantly, it provides increased funding for PK, low-income students, English language learners, and disabled students. This comprehensive bill affects school finance is numerous ways.
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