By: Hinojosa H.B. No. 4584 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to a report required to be filed with the Public Education Information Management System by public schools. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 48.009(b-4), Education Code, as added by Chapter 972 (S.B. 2050), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, is amended to read as follows: (b-4) The commissioner by rule shall require each school district and open-enrollment charter school to biannually [annually] report through the Public Education Information Management System the number of reported incidents of bullying that have occurred at each campus. The commissioner's rules shall require a district or school to specify the number of incidents of bullying that included cyberbullying. SECTION 2. Section 48.009, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: (e) All information required by this section must be reported twice each school year through the Public Education Information Management System in October and April. SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 school year. SECTION 4. 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, 2023.