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.