By Combs, Hernandez                                    H.B. No. 400
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                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to reporting violent conduct on public school campuses or
    1-3  during public school activities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 21.304 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 21.304.  REPORTS TO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY;
    1-8  LIABILITY.  (a)  The principal of a public primary or secondary
    1-9  school, or a person designated by the principal under Subsection
   1-10  (c), shall notify the Department of Public Safety of any violent
   1-11  conduct that occurs on school property or at a school-sponsored or
   1-12  school-related activity that could constitute one of the following:
   1-13              (1)  criminal homicide, as defined by Chapter 19, Penal
   1-14  Code; or
   1-15              (2)  assault, sexual assault, aggravated assault,
   1-16  aggravated sexual assault, or deadly conduct, as defined by Chapter
   1-17  22, Penal Code.
   1-18        (b)  The Department of Public Safety shall develop and adopt
   1-19  a form to be used in reporting violent conduct under this section
   1-20  and shall develop and use a uniform reporting system to track
   1-21  reported conduct.
   1-22        (c)  The principal of a public primary or secondary school
   1-23  may designate a school employee who is under the supervision of the
   1-24  principal to make the reports required by this section.
    2-1        (d)  A person is not liable in civil damages for reporting in
    2-2  good faith as required by this section.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996
    2-4  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,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.