By Wilson H.B. No. 58
74R1862 KKA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the suspension of a student from participation in
1-3 extracurricular activities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.920(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) A student enrolled in a school district in this state
1-8 shall be suspended from participation in any extracurricular
1-9 activity sponsored or sanctioned by the school district during the
1-10 grade reporting period after a grade reporting period in which the
1-11 student's grade average in academic classes is <student received a
1-12 grade> lower than the equivalent of 70 on a scale of 100 <in any
1-13 academic class>. The campus principal may omit from the
1-14 computation of a student's grade average a grade in <remove this
1-15 suspension if the class is> an identified honors or advanced class.
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 21.920(d), Education Code, as added by
1-17 Section 1, Part F, Article IV, Chapter 28, Acts of the 68th
1-18 Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1984, is repealed.
1-19 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996
1-20 school year.
1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.