By Luna S.B. No. 1020
75R7870 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the powers and duties of a public school attendance
1-3 officer.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.091(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) A school attendance officer has the following powers and
1-8 duties:
1-9 (1) to investigate each case of unexcused absence from
1-10 school;
1-11 (2) to administer oaths and to serve legal process;
1-12 (3) to enforce the compulsory school attendance law;
1-13 (4) to compel a student's attendance at tutorials as
1-14 required by a school district in accordance with Section 29.084(b);
1-15 (5) to keep a record of each case of any kind
1-16 investigated by the officer in the discharge of the officer's
1-17 duties;
1-18 (6) [(5)] to make any report required by the
1-19 commissioner concerning the discharge of the officer's duties; and
1-20 (7) [(6)] to refer to a juvenile court or to a justice
1-21 court if the juvenile court has waived jurisdiction as provided by
1-22 Section 54.021(a), Family Code, any student who has unexcused
1-23 voluntary absences for the amount of time specified under Section
1-24 51.03(b)(2), Family Code, or to file a complaint against any person
2-1 standing in parental relation who violates Section 25.093 or to
2-2 file a complaint against a student who violates Section 25.094.
2-3 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
2-4 school year.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.