By Bivins S.B. No. 518
75R2400 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the term of a suspension of a public school student
1-3 from extracurricular activities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 33.081(c) and (d), Education Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) A student who is enrolled in a school district in this
1-8 state or who participates in a University Interscholastic League
1-9 competition shall be suspended from participation in any
1-10 extracurricular activity sponsored or sanctioned by the school
1-11 district or the University Interscholastic League after a grade
1-12 evaluation period in which the student received a grade lower than
1-13 the equivalent of 70 on a scale of 100 in any academic class other
1-14 than an identified honors or advanced class. A suspension
1-15 continues for at least three weeks and is not removed [during the
1-16 school year] until the conditions of Subsection (d) are met. [A
1-17 suspension does not last beyond the end of a school year.] For
1-18 purposes of this subsection, "grade evaluation period" means:
1-19 (1) the six-week grade reporting period; or
1-20 (2) the first six weeks of a semester and each grade
1-21 reporting period thereafter, in the case of a district with a grade
1-22 reporting period longer than six weeks.
1-23 (d) Until the suspension is removed under this subsection
1-24 [or the school year ends], a school district shall review the
2-1 grades of a student suspended under Subsection (c) at the end of
2-2 each three-week period following the date on which the suspension
2-3 began. At the time of a review, the suspension is removed if the
2-4 student's grade in each class, other than an identified honors or
2-5 advanced class, is equal to or greater than the equivalent of 70 on
2-6 a scale of 100. The principal and each of the student's teachers
2-7 shall make the determination concerning the student's grades.
2-8 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
2-9 school year, except that the amendment to Section 33.081, Education
2-10 Code, made by this Act does not apply to a suspension from
2-11 extracurricular activities imposed during the 1996-1997 school
2-12 year.
2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.