By Hernandez                                          H.B. No. 2364
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the placement of students in public schools as a
    1-3  condition of probation.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.3011(j), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (j)  If a court orders a student who has been expelled to
    1-8  attend school as a condition of probation, the school district
    1-9  shall readmit the student, but the student is not immune from
   1-10  suspension, removal to an alternative education program, or
   1-11  expulsion during the term of the probation.  If a student is
   1-12  expelled under this section, the school district retains the
   1-13  authority to place the student in the appropriate educational
   1-14  setting.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.