By Serna                                              H.B. No. 3150
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a daytime curfew for public school students.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 21.042 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 21.042.  DAYTIME CURFEW FOR STUDENTS.  (a)  The board of
    1-7  trustees of a school district may adopt a daytime curfew to
    1-8  regulate the movements or actions of students who are:
    1-9              (1)  enrolled in the district;
   1-10              (2)  at least 8 years of age and not older than 17
   1-11  years of age;
   1-12              (3)  required to attend school under Section 21.032.
   1-13        (b)  A curfew adopted under this section must apply between
   1-14  the hours of 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. on any day in which school is in
   1-15  session.
   1-16        (c)  In adopting a curfew under this section, the board of
   1-17  trustees may:
   1-18              (1)  describe the kinds of conduct subject to the
   1-19  curfew; and
   1-20              (2)  determine the locations to which the curfew
   1-21  applies.
   1-22        (d)  A school district shall provide parent-teacher
   1-23  counseling for a student found to have violated a curfew under this
    2-1  section.  A student found to have violated a curfew under this
    2-2  section is subject to any other appropriate disciplinary or legal
    2-3  action.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.