By: Danburg H.B. No. 574
73R487 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to disposition of a paging device confiscated from a
1-3 public school student.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.309(c), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (c) A person who discovers a student in possession of a
1-8 paging device in violation of this section shall report the
1-9 violation to the appropriate school administrator, as determined by
1-10 school policy, who shall order a peace officer or appropriate
1-11 school employee to confiscate the device. A paging device
1-12 confiscated under this subsection<, which> is forfeited to the
1-13 school district, except that the school district shall deliver the
1-14 paging device to its owner if:
1-15 (1) the school district with reasonable effort can
1-16 determine who is the owner; and
1-17 (2) the owner is in the business of leasing paging
1-18 devices.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to:
1-20 (1) a paging device confiscated on or after the
1-21 effective date of this Act; and
1-22 (2) a paging device confiscated before the effective
1-23 date of this Act if the school district has not disposed of the
1-24 paging device before that date.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.