By: Bivins S.B. No. 140
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to expulsion of a public school student from an
1-2 alternative education program.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 37.007, Education Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) A student may be expelled if the student, while [after
1-7 being] placed in an alternative education program for disciplinary
1-8 reasons, continues to engage in serious or persistent misbehavior
1-9 that violates the district's student code of conduct.
1-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16 passage, and it is so enacted.