By Pitts                                               H.B. No. 448
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                                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.