By Dutton                                        H.B. No. 946

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to administration of medication to public school students

 1-3     for treatment of certain disorders.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 38, Education Code, is amended by adding

 1-6     Section 38.011 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 38.011.  ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATION FOR TREATMENT OF

 1-8     ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER OR ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY

 1-9     DISORDER.  (a)  Each school campus shall maintain a record of the

1-10     number of students to whom campus personnel administer medication

1-11     for treatment of attention deficit disorder or attention deficit

1-12     hyperactivity disorder.  The campus shall file with the school

1-13     district a written report based on that record.  The report must be

1-14     in the form and filed in the manner specified by the district.

1-15           (b)  Each school district shall compile the information in

1-16     the reports submitted under Subsection (a) and shall annually file

1-17     with the agency a written report based on that compilation.  The

1-18     report must be in the form and filed in the manner specified by the

1-19     agency.

1-20           (c)  A report or record required under this section may not

1-21     contain information, other than the identity of a school campus,

1-22     school district, or grade level, likely to be useful in determining

1-23     the identity of a particular student.

1-24           SECTION 2.  Section 38.011, Education Code, as added by this

 2-1     Act, applies beginning with the 1997-1998 school year.

 2-2           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-7     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-8     passage, and it is so enacted.