By Greenberg                                    H.B. No. 1150

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                                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 any offense other than an

 1-9     offense punishable by fine only[:]

1-10                 [(1)  an offense listed in Section 8(c), Article 42.18,

1-11     Code of Criminal Procedure; reckless conduct, as described by

1-12     Section 22.05, Penal Code; or a terroristic threat, as described by

1-13     Section 22.07, Penal Code;]

1-14                 [(2)  the unlawful use, sale, or possession of a

1-15     controlled substance, drug paraphernalia, or marihuana, as defined

1-16     by Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code;]

1-17                 [(3)  the unlawful possession of any of the weapons or

1-18     devices listed in Sections 46.01(1)-(14) or (16), Penal Code; or a

1-19     weapon listed as a prohibited weapon under Section 46.05, Penal

1-20     Code; or]

1-21                 [(4)  a criminal offense under Section 71.02, Penal

1-22     Code].

1-23           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies

1-24     beginning with the 1997-1998 school year.

 2-1           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

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

 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-6     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-7     passage, and it is so enacted.