By George                                             H.B. No. 3379
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a bill of rights for public school teachers.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 21.005 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 21.005.  TEACHER'S BILL OF RIGHTS.  Each teacher has
 1-7     certain rights, including the right to:
 1-8                 (1)  teach in a safe environment;
 1-9                 (2)  be free from threats or assaults by students; and
1-10                 (3)  have the teacher's person and property secure.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.