SRC-DPW S.B. 1330 76(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1330
76R9040 KKA-DBy: Shapiro
Education
4/19/1999
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, Texas law allows a sex offender and the victim of the sex
offender to be placed in the same classroom.  Such a situation has been
reported to cause undue stress on the victim and to serve as a distraction
in the learning process for the victim.  This bill would prohibit a person
who has been convicted of indecency with a child, aggravated sexual
assault, or sexual assault, from being assigned to a classroom with the
victim of the crime without the written consent of the parents of the
victim. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 1330 sets forth procedures limiting the assignment of a
student to a particular class under certain circumstances. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Chapter 37A, Education Code, by adding Section 37.0031,
as follows: 

Sec. 37.0031. LIMITING ASSIGNMENT OF CERTAIN STUDENTS TO CLASS OF VICTIM.
Prohibits a student who has been adjudicated as having engaged in
delinquent conduct that included a certain violation, or who has been
convicted of an offense under certain sections, from being assigned to the
same class as the victim of that delinquent conduct or offense without the
consent of the victim or victim's parents, if the victim is 18 years of age
or older, unless the Placement Review Committee determines that such
placement is the only alternative. 

SECTION 2. Amends Section 37.003(a), Education Code, to require each school
to establish a committee to determine the placement of a student when a
parent or victim refuses the student's assignment to a class under Section
37.0031.  Makes conforming changes. 

SECTION 3. Provides that this Act applies beginning with the 1999 - 2000
school year. 

SECTION 4.Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.