By: Wilson H.B. No. 1365 73R5649 CAE-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to school district regulations relating to a student's 1-3 hair length. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 21.3012 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 21.3012. HAIR LENGTH REGULATIONS. The board of 1-8 trustees of a school district or the board's designee may not 1-9 suspend or expel a student or remove a student to an alternative 1-10 education program for the violation of a school district standard 1-11 relating to hair length. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994 1-13 school year. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.