By: Edwards, Al H.B. No. 856 73R4007 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to corporal punishment in certain school districts. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter R, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 21.705 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 21.705. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. (a) The board of 1-7 trustees of a school district with 185,000 or more students in 1-8 average daily attendance may adopt and implement a discipline 1-9 management program that authorizes the administration of corporal 1-10 punishment in the presence of a witness without requiring parental 1-11 consent. 1-12 (b) In this section, "average daily attendance" has the 1-13 meaning assigned by Section 16.006 of this code. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994 1-15 school year. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.