By Moffat H.B. No. 1967
74R7036 KKA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to prohibiting school districts from employing persons or
1-3 contracting with certain persons who employ persons convicted of a
1-4 felony or an offense involving moral turpitude.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 21.917, Education Code, is amended by
1-7 adding Subsection (b) and amending Subsection (d) to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 (b) A school district may not hire a person who has been
1-10 convicted of a felony or an offense involving moral turpitude.
1-11 (d) A school district shall <may> discharge an employee if
1-12 the district obtains information of the employee's conviction for a
1-13 felony<,> or an offense involving moral turpitude<, that the
1-14 employee did not disclose to the district>.
1-15 SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
1-16 amended by adding Section 21.940 to read as follows:
1-17 Sec. 21.940. CONTRACTS INVOLVING WORKERS IN PROXIMITY TO
1-18 STUDENTS. (a) A person who enters into a contract with a school
1-19 district must certify that the person will not permit an individual
1-20 convicted of a felony or an offense involving moral turpitude to
1-21 provide a service under the contract that places the individual in
1-22 proximity to district students.
1-23 (b) A school district may not enter into a contract with a
1-24 person unless the person complies with Subsection (a).
2-1 (c) A school district must terminate a contract with a
2-2 person if the district determines that the person has permitted an
2-3 individual convicted of a felony or an offense involving moral
2-4 turpitude to provide a service under the contract that places the
2-5 individual in proximity to district students. The district must
2-6 compensate the person for services performed before the termination
2-7 of the contract.
2-8 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-9 SECTION 4. Section 21.940, Education Code, as added by this
2-10 Act, does not apply to a contract entered into before the effective
2-11 date of this Act.
2-12 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.