By West S.B. No. 1358 75R7649 CAS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to meetings of public school student placement review 1-3 committees. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.003, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 (b) The teacher refusing to readmit the student may not 1-9 serve on the committee but may attend a committee meeting. 1-10 (c) A parent, guardian, or other person having lawful 1-11 control over the student under a court order may attend a committee 1-12 meeting or portion of a meeting involving that student. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 1-14 school year. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.