1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 140
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed December 16, 1996; January 14, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 February 27, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 9, Nays 0; February 27, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to expulsion of a public school student from an
1-9 alternative education program.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 37.007, Education Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) A student may be expelled if the student, while [after
1-14 being] placed in an alternative education program for disciplinary
1-15 reasons, continues to engage in serious or persistent misbehavior
1-16 that violates the district's student code of conduct.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.
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