Legislative Priorities
A selected list of CHILDREN AT RISK'S legislative priorities for the 83rd Texas Legislature are below. The full list can be found here.
- Implement alternatives to Class C ticketing as a method of school discipline
- Implement a Universal School Breakfast Program for schools that have 80% or more of the student population living at or below 185% of the Federal Poverty Line
- Recognize children who have been prostituted as victims, not criminals, and vacate convictions and increase privacy for victims (concerning human trafficking cases
- Establish minimum licensing requirements to operate safe houses serving minor victims
- Establish a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) blue ribbon commission or taskforce to study the Texas Education Agency’s T-STEM Initiative as well as other cost-effective and best practices opportunities to increase STEM achievement
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