By Goolsby                                              H.B. No. 25
       74R628 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to prohibiting school district employees from
    1-3  administering or authorizing the administration of corporal
    1-4  punishment to students.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 21.310 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 21.310.  CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.  (a)  An employee of a
    1-9  school district may not administer or authorize the administration
   1-10  of corporal punishment to a student.
   1-11        (b)  An employee of a school district may use a reasonable
   1-12  and necessary physical restraining technique for the purpose of
   1-13  self-defense.
   1-14        (c)  In this section, "corporal punishment" includes hitting,
   1-15  spanking, or slapping with a hand or object or requiring
   1-16  maintenance of a physically painful position.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.