By King of Uvalde                                     H.B. No. 1783
         76R6731 ESH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the expulsion or placement in alternative education
 1-3     programs of public school students who commit an assault on school
 1-4     property or at a school-sponsored or school-related activity.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 37.006, Education Code, is amended by
 1-7     adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows:
 1-8           (d-1)  A student may be removed from class and placed in an
 1-9     alternative education program as provided by Section 37.008 if the
1-10     student, while on school property or while attending a
1-11     school-sponsored or school-related activity on or off of school
1-12     property, engages in conduct that contains the elements of the
1-13     offense of assault under Section 22.01(a)(2) or (3), Penal Code.
1-14           SECTION 2.  Section 37.007(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-15     read as follows:
1-16           (b)  A student may be expelled if the student, while on
1-17     school property or while attending a school-sponsored or
1-18     school-related activity on or off of school property:
1-19                 (1)  sells, gives, or delivers to another person or
1-20     possesses, uses, or is under the influence of any amount of:
1-21                       (A)  marihuana or a controlled substance, as
1-22     defined by Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, or by 21 U.S.C.
1-23     Section 801 et seq.;
1-24                       (B)  a dangerous drug, as defined by Chapter 483,
 2-1     Health and Safety Code; or
 2-2                       (C)  an alcoholic beverage, as defined by Section
 2-3     1.04, Alcoholic Beverage Code;  [or]
 2-4                 (2)  engages in conduct that contains the elements of
 2-5     an offense relating to abusable glue or aerosol paint under
 2-6     Sections 485.031 through 485.035, Health and Safety Code, or
 2-7     relating to volatile chemicals under Chapter 484, Health and Safety
 2-8     Code; or
 2-9                 (3)  engages in conduct that contains the elements of
2-10     the offense of assault under Section 22.01, Penal Code.
2-11           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
2-12     school year.
2-13           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19     passage, and it is so enacted.