By: Martin H.B. No. 226 73R1767 CMB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to prohibiting a person from removing a student from, or 1-3 enticing a student to leave, a public school campus; providing 1-4 penalties. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 4, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 4.32 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 4.32. REMOVAL OF STUDENT FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL CAMPUS. 1-9 (a) A person who is not enrolled in a public school commits an 1-10 offense if the person removes a student from, or entices a student 1-11 to leave, a public school campus without the permission of the 1-12 student's parent or the person standing in parental relationship to 1-13 the student. 1-14 (b) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that 1-15 the person reasonably believed that the person had been given 1-16 permission to remove the student from a campus by the student's 1-17 parent or the person standing in parental relationship to the 1-18 student. 1-19 (c) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.