By Walker H.B. No. 654 75R437 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring that a parent be given notice of a student's 1-3 placement into in-school suspension. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 37.0051 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 37.0051. NOTICE OF IN-SCHOOL SUSPENSION. (a) As soon 1-8 as practicable after a principal places a student into in-school 1-9 suspension, the principal shall give notice of the student's 1-10 placement to the student's parent. 1-11 (b) The principal shall attempt to give oral notice of the 1-12 student's in-school suspension to the parent and shall also mail 1-13 notice to the parent. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 1-15 school year. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.