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.