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House Bill 114 |
House Author: Thompson, Ed |
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Effective: 9-1-23 |
Senate Sponsor: Parker et al. |
House Bill 114 amends the Education Code to require the removal from class and placement in a disciplinary alternative education program (DAEP) for a student who possesses, uses, sells, gives, or delivers to another person an e‑cigarette. The bill authorizes the provision of educational and support services to a student who engages in an offense involving such conduct. If a DAEP is at capacity at the time a campus behavior coordinator is deciding placement for a student who engaged in an offense involving an e‑cigarette, marihuana, an alcoholic beverage, or an abusable volatile chemical, the student must be placed in in‑school suspension and transferred to the DAEP if a position becomes available during the period of the placement. The bill provides for a position in a DAEP that is at capacity to be made available for placement of a student who engages in certain violent conduct by removing from the DAEP and placing in in‑school suspension a student who engaged in an offense involving an e‑cigarette, marihuana, an alcoholic beverage, or an abusable volatile chemical. The bill removes conduct involving marihuana, tetrahydrocannabinol, and alcoholic beverages from the conduct that triggers mandatory expulsion of a student from school.