By George H.B. No. 3379 76R7654 CAS-D 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.