By Barrientos S.B. No. 615 74R1908 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to parental consent for certain public school district 1-3 actions toward a student. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 21.940 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 21.940. MAKING A VIDEOTAPE OF, RECORDING THE VOICE OF, 1-8 OR ADMINISTERING CORPORAL PUNISHMENT TO A STUDENT. An employee of 1-9 a school district must obtain the written consent of a student's 1-10 parent or guardian before the employee may: 1-11 (1) make or authorize the making of a videotape of a 1-12 student; 1-13 (2) record or authorize the recording of a student's 1-14 voice; or 1-15 (3) administer or authorize the administration of 1-16 corporal punishment to a student. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996 1-18 school year. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.