By Bivins S.B. No. 140
75R1481 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to expulsion of a public school student from an
1-3 alternative education program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.007(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) A student may be expelled if the student, while [after
1-8 being] placed in an alternative education program for disciplinary
1-9 reasons, continues to engage in serious or persistent misbehavior
1-10 that violates the district's student code of conduct.
1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.