By Romo, Hirschi H.B. No. 935
74R1520 KLL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to smoking and the use of other tobacco products at school
1-3 activities and on school property.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.927, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 21.927. SMOKING AND USE OF OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS ON
1-8 SCHOOL PROPERTY. The board of trustees of a school district shall
1-9 prohibit <students from> smoking and the use of <or using> tobacco
1-10 products at any school related or sanctioned activity on or off
1-11 school property and shall instruct school personnel to enforce the
1-12 policy against smoking and the use of tobacco products on school
1-13 property. It shall be the responsibility of the Central Education
1-14 Agency to monitor and enforce this provision of the law.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.