By Johnson, Clemons, Stiles, Ramsay, Kubiak H.B. No. 1796 74R3938 KKA-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to student participation in extracurricular activities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 21.920(b), Education Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (b) A student enrolled in a school district in this state 1-7 shall be suspended from participation in any extracurricular 1-8 activity sponsored or sanctioned by the school district during the 1-9 grade reporting period after a grade reporting period in which the 1-10 student received a grade lower than the equivalent of 70 on a scale 1-11 of 100 in any academic class. The campus principal may remove this 1-12 suspension if the class is an identified honors or advanced class. 1-13 After the first three weeks of a suspension under this subsection, 1-14 the principal may remove the suspension if the student has not 1-15 received a grade lower than the equivalent of 70 on a scale of 100 1-16 in any academic class in that three-week period. The principal 1-17 shall reinstate the suspension if the student receives a grade 1-18 lower than the equivalent of 70 on a scale of 100 in any academic 1-19 class in the second three weeks of the period. A school district 1-20 may not require a classroom teacher to complete any paperwork 1-21 relating to the suspension of a student under this subsection, 1-22 other than paperwork permitted by Sections 21.925(e)(1)-(5) and 1-23 (7). 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996 2-1 school year. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.