By West                                               H.B. No. 1282
       74R4484 KKA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the disposition of paging devices confiscated from
    1-3  public school students.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.309(c), Education Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  A person who discovers a student in possession of a
    1-8  paging device in violation of this section shall report the
    1-9  violation to the appropriate school administrator, as determined by
   1-10  school policy, who shall order a peace officer or appropriate
   1-11  school employee to confiscate the device, which is forfeited to the
   1-12  school district.  The district may dispose of the device in any
   1-13  reasonable manner after providing an opportunity for the owner of
   1-14  the device or the student's parent to claim the device.  The
   1-15  district may charge the owner of the device or the student's parent
   1-16  a reasonable administrative fee before it releases the device.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 21.309(c), Education Code, as amended by
   1-18  this Act, applies only to:
   1-19              (1)  a paging device confiscated on or after the
   1-20  effective date of this Act; and
   1-21              (2)  a paging device confiscated before the effective
   1-22  date of this Act if the school district has not disposed of the
   1-23  paging device before that date.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.