By:  Sibley                                             S.B. No. 48
       73R508 CLG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the permanent expulsion of certain primary or secondary
    1-3  school students.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.3011(d), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (d)  The board or its designee shall set a term for the
    1-8  expulsion.
    1-9              (1)  Except as provided by Subdivision (3) of this
   1-10  subsection, the <The> expulsion may not extend beyond the end of
   1-11  the school year unless the conduct directly leading to the
   1-12  expulsion occurred during the final six-week reporting period of
   1-13  the school year, in which case the expulsion may extend beyond the
   1-14  end of the current school year but not beyond the end of the first
   1-15  semester of the next school year.
   1-16              (2)  A pupil who is to be expelled for the first time
   1-17  for possession, use, or for being under the influence of an
   1-18  alcoholic beverage as defined in this section may not be expelled
   1-19  beyond the end of the semester, unless the conduct directly leading
   1-20  to the expulsion occurred during the final six-week reporting
   1-21  period of a semester, which may result in expulsion not to extend
   1-22  beyond the end of the next regular semester.
   1-23              (3)  A student may be permanently expelled from school
   1-24  if the conduct directly leading to the student's expulsion was
    2-1  conduct for which a student may be expelled under Subdivision (1)
    2-2  or (4) of Subsection (b) of this section.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect beginning with the
    2-4  1993-1994 school year.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.