By Truan S.B. No. 562 75R3766 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring public schools to post telephone numbers of 1-3 law enforcement agencies for students to use in reporting certain 1-4 illegal conduct. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 37.0161 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 37.0161. POSTING OF TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR STUDENT 1-9 REPORTS OF ILLEGAL CONDUCT. Each school shall post, in a location 1-10 clearly visible to students, the telephone number of a local law 1-11 enforcement agency that a student may call to report: 1-12 (1) the presence of an illegal weapon or illegal drug 1-13 in the school or at a school-sponsored or school-related activity; 1-14 (2) an attempt by a person, at the school or during a 1-15 school-sponsored or school-related activity, to sell or give an 1-16 illegal drug to the student; or 1-17 (3) an assault, robbery, or theft that occurred at the 1-18 school or during a school-sponsored or school-related activity. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 1-20 school year. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.