By:  Whitmire                                          S.B. No. 698
       73R5719 DRH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the duty of a principal or superintendent of a school
    1-3  district to report certain criminal offenses occurring on school
    1-4  district property or at an event sponsored by a school district;
    1-5  providing penalties.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 13, Education Code, is
    1-8  amended by adding Section 13.355 to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 13.355.  DUTY TO REPORT CRIMINAL OFFENSE.  (a)  A
   1-10  superintendent or principal commits an offense if the
   1-11  superintendent or principal:
   1-12              (1)  knows or should have known that conduct
   1-13  constituting a criminal offense occurred against the person or
   1-14  property of an employee of the school district on the property of
   1-15  the school district or at an event sponsored by the school
   1-16  district; and
   1-17              (2)  fails to file in a timely manner an affidavit
   1-18  under Article 21.22, Code of Criminal Procedure, alleging the
   1-19  commission of an offense described by Subdivision (1) of this
   1-20  subsection.
   1-21        (b)  An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
   1-22        (c)  If the commissioner of education finds that a person has
   1-23  been convicted more than once of an offense under this section, the
   1-24  person is ineligible for employment as a superintendent or
    2-1  principal before the first anniversary of the date of the finding.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.