By Pitts H.B. No. 449 76R1819 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a requirement that a public school principal provide 1-3 notice to a juvenile probation department before suspending or 1-4 expelling a student. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 37.0041 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 37.0041. PRIOR NOTIFICATION TO JUVENILE PROBATION 1-9 DEPARTMENT. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the 1-10 principal of a public primary or secondary school, or a person 1-11 designated by the principal, shall notify the juvenile probation 1-12 department for the county in which the school is located before 1-13 suspending a student as provided by Section 37.005 or expelling a 1-14 student as provided by Section 37.007. 1-15 (b) If the principal or person designated by the principal 1-16 orders the immediate expulsion of a student as authorized by 1-17 Section 37.019, the principal or person designated shall notify 1-18 the juvenile probation department immediately after expelling the 1-19 student. 1-20 (c) The notification required by this section is an 1-21 additional requirement that does not replace or otherwise affect 1-22 the duty of a school district to provide notification under Section 1-23 37.010. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 2-1 school year. 2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.