By Luna                                               H.B. No. 2962
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to procedures required in the investigation of reports
    1-3  alleging misconduct toward students by school employees.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.936, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  When a school district initiates an investigation based
    1-8  on a report alleging physical abuse of, or sexual misconduct
    1-9  toward, a student by a school employee, the school district must:
   1-10              (1)  immediately notify the employee of the
   1-11  investigation and of the reported allegations on which it is based;
   1-12              (2)  immediately notify the employee of the employee's
   1-13  right to representation by counsel or other chosen representative
   1-14  in connection with the investigation, including the right to such
   1-15  representation in any meeting at which the employee is questioned
   1-16  in connection with the investigation.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.