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.