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House Bill 283 |
House Author: Hope et al. |
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Effective: 6-18-05 |
Senate Sponsor: Zaffirini |
House Bill 283 amends the Education Code to allow a student victimized by bullying to be transferred to another classroom or school campus within the school district. The bill requires a school district's board of trustees or its designee to transfer the student, on the request of the student's parent or other person authorized to act on the student's behalf, to another classroom or to another campus within the district. It also requires a district's code of conduct to prohibit bullying, harassment, and the making of hit lists; to ensure that district employees enforce those prohibitions; and to provide grade-level appropriate methods for managing students in the classroom and on school grounds, disciplining students, and preventing and intervening in student discipline problems, including bullying, harassment, and making hit lists. The bill requires that the methods prohibit disciplining a student enrolled in a special education program for bullying until the student's admission, review, and dismissal committee has met to review the conduct. The bill requires a school district's discipline management program to provide for prevention of and education concerning unwanted physical or verbal aggression, sexual harassment, and other forms of bullying in school, on school grounds, and in school vehicles.
The bill also requires a school district to admit a nonresident student into the district's schools if the student's grandparent resides in the district and provides a substantial amount of after-school care for the student, as determined by the board.