By: Wilson H.B. No. 1361 73R5646 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the distribution of condoms at public and private high 1-3 schools. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Education Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 2.14 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 2.14. DISTRIBUTION OF CONDOMS AT HIGH SCHOOLS. (a) 1-8 Each public or private high school shall distribute a condom to a 1-9 high school student who is enrolled at the school and who requests 1-10 the condom. 1-11 (b) A high school may not charge a student for a condom. 1-12 (c) In this section: 1-13 (1) "High school" means a school that offers classes 1-14 for students enrolled in the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade. 1-15 (2) "High school student" means a student enrolled in 1-16 the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade. 1-17 SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 1994, each public or 1-18 private high school shall begin distributing condoms as required by 1-19 Section 2.14, Education Code, as added by this Act, to enrolled 1-20 students who request condoms. 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.