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.