By Tillery H.B. No. 389
76R2486 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a school district's student code of conduct.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 37.001(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) The board of trustees of an independent school district
1-7 shall, with the advice of its district-level committee established
1-8 under Section 11.251, adopt a student code of conduct for the
1-9 district. The student code of conduct must be posted and
1-10 prominently displayed at each school campus. In addition to
1-11 establishing standards for student conduct, the student code of
1-12 conduct must:
1-13 (1) specify the circumstances, in accordance with this
1-14 subchapter, under which a student may be removed from a classroom,
1-15 campus, or alternative education program;
1-16 (2) specify conditions that authorize or require a
1-17 principal or other appropriate administrator to transfer a student
1-18 to an alternative education program; [and]
1-19 (3) outline conditions under which a student may be
1-20 suspended as provided by Section 37.005 or expelled as provided by
1-21 Section 37.007; and
1-22 (4) to the extent permitted by this subchapter,
1-23 provide for taking into account that a student was acting in
1-24 self-defense, if applicable, before determining whether to remove a
2-1 student from a classroom, campus, or alternative education program,
2-2 transfer a student to an alternative education program, or suspend
2-3 a student on the basis of the student's action.
2-4 SECTION 2. The board of trustees of each school district
2-5 shall ensure that the district's student code of conduct complies
2-6 with Section 37.001(a), Education Code, as amended by this Act, not
2-7 later than the beginning of the 1999-2000 school year.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.