By Pitts H.B. No. 448 76R1818 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to notification of certain persons by a school district 1-3 when a student makes certain threats. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The heading to Section 37.015, Education Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 37.015. REPORTS TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND 1-8 OTHER PERSONS; LIABILITY. 1-9 SECTION 2. Section 37.015, Education Code, is amended by 1-10 adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-11 (g) A principal or the principal's designee required by 1-12 Subsection (a) to make a notification on the basis of a student's 1-13 threat to cause serious bodily injury or to cause property damage 1-14 likely to result in serious bodily injury shall, within the 1-15 six-hour period immediately following the time the principal 1-16 becomes aware of the threat, notify: 1-17 (1) local law enforcement officers in compliance with 1-18 Subsection (a); 1-19 (2) the student's parents; and 1-20 (3) the juvenile probation department or the local 1-21 office of the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, as 1-22 appropriate for the student's age. 1-23 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.