By Greenberg, et al.                                  H.B. No. 1150

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the notification of school personnel of the arrest or

 1-3     detention of a student and any subsequent disposition of that

 1-4     arrest or detention.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Article 15.27(h), Code of Criminal Procedure, is

 1-7     amended to read as follows:

 1-8           (h)  This article applies to:

 1-9                 (1)  an offense under [listed in Section 8(c), Article

1-10     42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure; reckless conduct, as described

1-11     by] Section 19.02, 19.03, 19.04, 19.05, 20.02, 20.03, 20.04, 21.08,

1-12     21.11, 22.01, 22.011, 22.02, 22.021, 22.04, 22.05, [Penal Code; or

1-13     a terroristic threat, as described by Section] 22.07, 28.02, 29.02,

1-14     29.03, 30.02, or 71.02, Penal Code;

1-15                 (2)  the unlawful use, sale, or possession of a

1-16     controlled substance, drug paraphernalia, or marihuana, as defined

1-17     by Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code;

1-18                 (3)  the unlawful possession of any of the weapons or

1-19     devices listed in Sections 46.01(1)-(14) or (16), Penal Code; or a

1-20     weapon listed as a prohibited weapon under Section 46.05, Penal

1-21     Code; or

1-22                 (4)  a felony [criminal] offense in which a deadly

1-23     weapon, as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code, was used or

1-24     exhibited [under Section 71.02, Penal Code].

 2-1           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies

 2-2     beginning with the 1997-1998 school year.

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

 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-8     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-9     passage, and it is so enacted.