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.