Relating to a public institution of higher education's sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking resources and policy orientation, the official text

S.B. No. 800

AN ACT

relating to a public institution of higher education's sexual

harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking

resources and policy orientation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 51.282(c), Education Code, is amended to

read as follows:

(c) Each postsecondary educational institution shall

require each entering freshman or undergraduate transfer student to

attend an orientation on the institution's sexual harassment,

sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking policy before or

during the first semester or term in which the student is enrolled

at the institution. The institution shall establish the format and

content of the orientation. The orientation:

(1) may be provided online; and

(2) must include:

(A) a video that states:

(i) the names of the institution's Title IX

coordinators and deputy coordinators;

(ii) the location and contact information

of the institution's Title IX office;

(iii) the services provided by the

institution's Title IX office;

(iv) how to report a sexual assault to the

institution;

(v) information regarding the crime

victims' compensation program; and

(vi) a list of local community and

statewide organizations that provide support services to survivors

of sexual assault; and

(B) the statements described by Subsection

(a)(1)(E).

SECTION 2. The heading to Section 51.91941, Education Code,

is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 51.91941. SUICIDE PREVENTION AND SEXUAL ASSAULT

INFORMATION REQUIRED ON STUDENT IDENTIFICATION CARD.

SECTION 3. Section 51.91941(b), Education Code, is amended

to read as follows:

(b) Each student identification card issued by an

institution of higher education:

(1) must have printed on the card the contact

information for:

(A) the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline;

[and]

(B) the Crisis Text Line; and

(C) the National Sexual Assault Hotline; and

(2) may have printed on the card the contact

information for:

(A) the campus police department or security for

the campus at which the student to whom the card is issued regularly

attends classes or, if the campus does not have a campus police

department or security, a local nonemergency police contact;

(B) the campus health clinic for the campus at

which the student to whom the card is issued regularly attends

classes or, if the campus does not have a health clinic, a local

health clinic; and

(C) a local suicide prevention hotline, if

available.

SECTION 4. Section 51.282(c), Education Code, as amended by

this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year.

SECTION 5. Section 51.91941(b), Education Code, as amended

by this Act, applies only to a student identification card issued on

or after the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 6. 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, 2025.

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President of the Senate
Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 800 passed the Senate on

April 30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that

the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 30, 2025, by the

following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 800 passed the House, with

amendments, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 94,

Nays 38, two present not voting.

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Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

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Date

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Governor